The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo Indian MP and Chancery "Lunatic" (Columbia/Hurst)

by Michael H. Fisher

The descendent of German and French Catholic mercenaries, a Scots Presbyterian subaltern, and their secluded Indian wives, David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre defied all classification in the North Indian principality where he was raised. Add to these influences an adoptive mother who began as a Muslim courtesan and rose to become the Catholic ruler of a strategically-placed, cosmopolitan little kingdom, which her foster son was destined to inherit, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023170108X
• ISBN13: 9780231701082
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher