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¿This book offers an exploration of the postcolonial hybrid experience in anglophone Caribbean plays and performance from a feminist perspective. In a hitherto unattempted consideration of Caribbean theatre and performance, this study of gendered identities chronicles the postcolonial hybrid experience ¿ and how it varies in the context of questions of sex, performance and social designation. In the process, it examines the diverse performance...

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¿This book offers an exploration of the postcolonial hybrid experience in anglophone Caribbean plays and performance from a feminist perspective. In a hitherto unattempted consideration of Caribbean theatre and performance, this study of gendered identities chronicles the postcolonial hybrid experience ¿ and how it varies in the context of questions of sex, performance and social designation. In the process, it examines the diverse performance...

Basu's account of how Arthur Conan Doyle set about trying to get a pardon for Edalji is in itself a fine piece of detective work.' The Times 'Compulsive reading.' A.N. Wilson 'Nails the nastiness of a peculiarly English scandal.' The Spectator 'A potent mix of racial injustice, Sherlockian mystery and Shrabani's signature storytelling.' Lucy Worsley In the village of Great Wyrley near Birmingham, someone is mutilating horses. Someone is also...

In the village of Great Wyrley near Birmingham, someone is mutilating horses. Someone is also sending threatening letters to the vicarage, where the vicar - Shahpur Edalji is a Parsi convert to Christianity and the first Indian to have a parish in England. His son George - quiet, socially awkward and the only boy at school with distinctly Indian features - grows up into a successful barrister, till he is improbably linked and then prosecuted f...

Basu's account of how Arthur Conan Doyle set about trying to get a pardon for Edalji is in itself a fine piece of detective work.' The Times 'Compulsive reading.' A.N. Wilson 'Nails the nastiness of a peculiarly English scandal.' The Spectator 'A potent mix of racial injustice, Sherlockian mystery and Shrabani's signature storytelling.' Lucy Worsley In the village of Great Wyrley near Birmingham, someone is mutilating horses. Someone is also...

Author of "Victoria & Abdul" Shrabani Basu traces the story of modern Britain's love of curry to its mid-eighteenth century origins in this revealing food history.

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Abdul Karim ha solo 24 anni quando da Agra, la città indiana del Taj Mahal, arriva alla corte della regina Vittoria a Londra. È un "dono" dell'India alla sua imperatrice e sovrana d'Inghilterra in occasione dei festeggiamenti del suo giubileo d'oro. È il 1887, Vittoria è anziana e triste dopo la morte del suo fedele servitore - e amante - John Brown. Abdul è bello e aitante e in breve tempo, da servitore al tavolo della regina, ne diventa atte...

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How did Britons come to take curry so much to its heart? Where did the word 'curry' originate? When did the first curry restaurants come to Britain? And when were the first recipes produced for those who wanted to concoct the flavoursome dishes in their home? This book traces the story of curry in Britain, from its beginnings to the present day.

Abdul Karim ha solo 24 anni quando da Agra, la città indiana del Taj Mahal, arriva alla corte della regina Vittoria a Londra. È un "dono" dell'India alla sua imperatrice e sovrana d'Inghilterra in occasione dei festeggiamenti del suo giubileo d'oro. È il 1887, Vittoria è anziana e triste dopo la morte del suo fedele servitore - e amante - John Brown. Abdul è bello e aitante e in breve tempo, da servitore al tavolo della regina, ne diventa atte...

Britain has become a nation of curryholics - there are more than 8000 curry restaurants in Britain, visited by two million people each week. Shrabani Basu traces the story of curry in Britain.

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Ein Paar, das ungleicher kaum sein könnte: Judi Dench in der Rolle der Queen VictoriaDer stattliche, gut aussehende Abdul Karim war gerade vierundzwanzig Jahre alt, als er seine große Reise von Indien nach England antrat. Als Gesandter der indischen Kolonien kam er an den Königlichen Hof in London, um Ihrer Majestät Queen Victoria (Judi Dench), der Kaiserin von Indien, anlässlich ihres 50. Thronjubiläums (1887) im Haushalt zu dienen. Eine Bege...

Tells the story of Noor Inayat Khan, the descendant of an Indian Prince Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore. She became a British secret agent for SOE during World War II. This book tells about Noor's life from her birth in Moscow - where her father was a Sufi preacher - to her capture by the Germans.

Now a major motion picture starring Dame Judi Dench, Victoria & Abdul examines how a young Indian Muslim came to play a central role at the heart of the empire, and tells a tender love story between an ordinary Indian and his elderly queen.

Victoria & Abdul is het ontroerende, ware verhaal van de innige vriendschap tussen koningin Victoria en haar bediende Abdul Karim. De Indiase Karim kwam op 24-jarige leeftijd naar Engeland om tijdens het gouden regeringsjubileum van koningin Victoria als tafelbediende te werken. Nog geen jaar later was Karim haar leraar en had hij een vooraanstaande positie aan het hof verworven. Abdul Karim onderrichtte Victoria in het Urdu en de Indiase cult...

Now a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears.History's most unlikely friendship-this is the astonishing story of Queen Victoria and her dearest companion, the young Indian Munshi Abdul Karim.In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of hertwo great loves-Prince Albert and John Brown-Queen Victoria meets tall and handsome Abdul Karim, a humble servant from Agra waiting tables at her Gol...

Reveals the close relationship between Queen Victoria and her Indian servant Abdul Karim.