Ebook: Begums, Thugs and White Mughals: the Journals of Fanny Parkes

Fanny Parkes lived in India between 1822 and 1846 and was the ideal travel writer? courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. Her journals trace her transformation from prim memsahib to eccentric, sitar-playing Indophile, fluent in Urdu, critical of British rule and passionate in her appreciation of Indian culture. Fanny is fascinated by the trial of thugs, the adorning of a Hindu bride and swears by the efficacy of opium on headaches. To read her is to get as close as one can to a true picture of early colonial India? the sacred and the profane, the violent and the.;Cover; Title Page; INTRODUCTION; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; GLOSSARY; MAP; DEDICATION; INVOCATION; CHAPTER I: Departure from England; CHAPTER II: Carnicobar; CHAPTER III: Life in India; CHAPTER IV: Residence in Calcutta; CHAPTER V: Residence in Calcutta; CHAPTER VI: Residence in Calcutta; CHAPTER VII: Departure from the Presidency; CHAPTER VIII: Life in the Mofussil; CHAPTER IX: Residence at Allahabad; CHAPTER X: Life in the Zenāna; CHAPTER XI: Residence at Prāg; CHAPTER XII: Sketches of Allahabad; CHAPTER XIII: Removal to Cawnpore -- Confessions of a Thug; CHAPTER XIV: Residence at Cawnpore.