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Sadiq Khan.
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
ambitious young man of thirty-seven with a high forehead, thick,
William Dalrymple • White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
“He possesses in my opinion, not the slightest spark of honour and affection, according to English ideas of those qualities.”
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
In a secret drawer of his desk, making it difficult to open or close, lay docketed reports headed Villiers, Diana, widow of Charles Villiers, late of Bombay, Esquire, and Canning, Richard, of Park Street and Coluber House, co. Bristol. These two were as carefully documented as any pair of State suspects working for Bonaparte’s intelligence services
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“I don’t consider niggers in the same light as I would a white man,”
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
liveried
Isabella Hammad • The Parisian
We crept in as humble barterers, whose existence depended on the bounty and favour of the lieutenants of the kings of Delhi; and the “generosity” we have shown was but a small acknowledgement of the favours his ancestors had conferred to our race.116 Russell concluded by pointing out that if the King was to be tried by a proper court of law, rather
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