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An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad - Scandal in the Raj (Hardcover)
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An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad - Scandal in the Raj (Hardcover)
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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. 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? 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. 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.
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