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A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal
Partha Chatterjee
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Description for A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal
Paperback. In 1921, a traveling religious man appeared in Bengal, who was later, began to be identified as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal. So began one of the most extraordinary legal cases in Indian history. This title evaluates this case of the man claiming to be the long-lost Kumar. The story unfolds alongside decades of Indian history. Num Pages: 456 pages, 7 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal--a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of twenty-six. So began one of the most extraordinary legal cases in Indian history. The case would rivet popular attention for several decades as it unwound in courts from Dhaka and Calcutta to London. This narrative history tells an incredible story replete with courtroom drama, sexual debauchery, family intrigue, and squandered wealth. With a novelist's eye for interesting detail, ... Read more
In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal--a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of twenty-six. So began one of the most extraordinary legal cases in Indian history. The case would rivet popular attention for several decades as it unwound in courts from Dhaka and Calcutta to London. This narrative history tells an incredible story replete with courtroom drama, sexual debauchery, family intrigue, and squandered wealth. With a novelist's eye for interesting detail, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691090313
SKU
V9780691090313
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About Partha Chatterjee
Partha Chatterjee is Director and Professor of Political Science at the Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World and The Nation and Its Fragments (Princeton). He is also a founding member of the editorial collective Subaltern Studies as ... Read more
Reviews for A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal
"Chatterjee has written a true account the reads like a mystery novel... A good reviewer should not give away the ending to a mystery, and the same applies in this case. But curious readers who want to discover the outcome will find this book
a fascinating introduction to the culture of British India
well worth their while."
Foreign Affairs "Like Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, ... Read more
a fascinating introduction to the culture of British India
well worth their while."
Foreign Affairs "Like Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, ... Read more