The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just twenty-four years old when
he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen
Victoria's Golden Jubilee. An assistant clerk at Agra Central Jail,
he suddenly found himself a personal attendant to the Empress of
India herself. Within a year, he was established as a powerful
figure at court, becoming the queen's teacher, or Munshi, and
instructing her in Urdu and Indian affairs. Devastated by the death
of John Brown, her Scottish ghillie, the queen had at last found
his replacement. But her intense and controversial relationship
with the Munshi led to a near-revolt in the royal household.
Victoria & Abdul examines how a young Indian Muslim came to
play a central role at the heart of the empire, and his influence
over the queen at a time when independence movements in the
sub-continent were growing in force. Yet, at its heart, it is a
tender love story between an ordinary Indian and his elderly queen,
a relationship that survived the best attempts to destroy it.
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