Princely impostor?: the Kumar of Bhawal and the secret history of Indian Nationalism / Partha Chatterjee.
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TextPublication details: New Delhi. : Permanent black c2004.Description: xvi, 429 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.: PbkISBN: - 9788178240848
- 954.922035 CHA 21
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-415) and index.
The facts of the matter --
An estate called Bhawal --
On hunting and other sports --
What happened in Darjeeling? --
First brush with the law --
The house on Lansdowne Road --
A fondness for miracles --
The identity puzzle --
The trial begins --
Darjeeling : the plaintiff's case --
Experts on recognition --
For the defense --
The climax --
Reasonings --
The judgment --
The appeal --
Razor's edge --
The decision --
To London and back.
In 1921 a travelling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon people began to identify him as the Second Kumar of Bhawal - a man believed to have died 12 years earlier - and so began a legal case which would last several decades. This is a narrative history of this incredible story.
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