| In the Court of the Ranee of Jhansi Pod Edition Contributor(s): Lang, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 9385288474 ISBN-13: 9789385288470 Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books OUR PRICE: $15.19 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - India & South Asia - Travel | Asia - India & South Asia |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.06" W x 7.81" (0.46 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Novelist, intrepid traveller, barrister-at-law, newspaper editor and uninhibited gossip, John Lang lived for a number of years in pre- and post-Mutiny British India, and his writings constitute some of the most vivid records of the time. Lang describes his meeting with the Ranee of Jhansi-soon to become the focal point of the rebellion-as well as his counsel to her; he also chronicles the wondrous and tragic life of 'Black and Blue', a boy of mixed British and Indian parentage, and his claims to a peerage in England. And, narrating a march in the Upper Provinces, Lang provides an eyewitness account of eight thousand monkeys, gathered in Deobund for a clan meeting. Written with a historian's sense of detail, a raconteur's delight in the unexpected, and a keen sense of the absurd, John Lang's travel diary is a riveting read. |