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The Private Life of an Eastern King: By a Member of the Household of His Late Majesty, Nussir-u-deen, King of Oude.
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| 著者・編者 | Knighton, William, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | (Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History) |
| 出版社 | (Cambridge University Press, UK) |
| 出版年月 | 2012 |
| ページ数 | 340 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A03-18030＞ |
解説
The writer William Knighton (c.1824-1900) spent much of his career in Sri Lanka and India. Published in 1855, this is an account of the court of the notorious Indian King Nussir-u-deen (c.1803-37), written from the viewpoint and using the testimony of an anonymous British member of the King's retinue. Richly descriptive, it is an intimate portrait of life in the service of a hedonistic sovereign so hated and paranoid that he feared his own family would try to poison him. He is characterised as a cruel and frivolous man who only trusted his sycophantic barber. As well as describing the lavish royal lifestyle, the narrator documents the King's thirst for hunting, for exotic-animal fights and for abusing and humiliating members of the royal family. This is a lurid and engrossing tale of a monarch in decline and the corruption and favouritism that led to his eventual assassination.