Appeal to the ladies of Hyderabad : (Record no. 65853)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780674247581
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 306.8450 COH-B
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name B. Cohen, Benjamin
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Appeal to the ladies of Hyderabad :
Remainder of title scandal in the Raj /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Benjamin B. Cohen
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. India
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Harvad University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2019
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 347 p.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price type code INR
Price amount 599.00.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note The dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth-century India and whose notorious trial and fall reverberated throughout the British Empire, setting the benchmark for Victorian scandals.<br/><br/>In April 1892, a damning pamphlet circulated in the south Indian city of Hyderabad, the capital of the largest and wealthiest princely state in the British Raj. An anonymous writer charged Mehdi Hasan, an aspiring Muslim lawyer from the north, and Ellen Donnelly, his Indian-born British wife, with gross sexual misconduct and deception. The scandal that ensued sent shock waves from Calcutta to London. Who wrote this pamphlet, and was it true?<br/><br/>Mehdi and Ellen had risen rapidly among Hyderabad’s elites. On a trip to London they even met Queen Victoria. Not long after, a scurrilous pamphlet addressed to “the ladies of Hyderabad” charged the couple with propagating a sham marriage for personal gain. Ellen, it was claimed, had been a prostitute, and Mehdi was accused of making his wife available to men who could advance his career. To avenge his wife and clear his name, Mehdi filed suit against the pamphlet’s printer, prompting a trial that would alter their lives.<br/><br/>Based on private letters, courtroom transcripts, secret government reports, and scathing newspaper accounts, Benjamin Cohen’s riveting reconstruction of the couple’s trial and tribulations lays bare the passions that ran across racial lines and the intimate betrayals that doomed the Hasans. Filled with accusations of midnight trysts and sexual taboos, An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad is a powerful reminder of the perils facing those who tried to rewrite society’s rules. In the struggle of one couple, it exposes the fault lines that would soon tear a world apart.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Miscegenation
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Race relations
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Scandals
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element India
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element India--Hyderabad (State)
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Employees
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Jang, Fathah Nawaz, 1852-1904
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  Dewey Decimal Classification     300 BITS Pilani Hyderabad General Stack (For lending) 08/09/2020 306.8450 COH-B 41549 13/07/2024 Books
An institution deemed to be a University Estd. Vide Sec.3 of the UGC
Act,1956 under notification # F.12-23/63.U-2 of Jun 18,1964

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