TY  - BOOK
AU  - Basu,Shrabani
TI  - Victoria & Abdul: the true story of the queen's closest confidant 
SN  - 9780525434412
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
KW  - Karim, Abdul,
KW  - Victoria,
KW  - East Indians
KW  - England
KW  - Biography
KW  - Favorites, Royal
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Court and courtiers
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-323) and index; Agra -- A Jubilee present -- An Indian Durbar -- Curries and highlanders -- Becoming the munshi -- A grant of land -- Indian affairs -- The Viceroy receives a Christmas card -- The household conspires -- Rebellion in the ranks -- "Munshimania" -- Redemption -- Death of a queen -- Last days in Agra -- Endgame
N2  - "In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of her two great loves--Prince Albert and John Brown--Queen Victoria meets tall and handsome Abdul Karim, a humble servant from Agra waiting tables at her Golden Jubilee. The two form an unlikely bond and within a year Abdul becomes a powerful figure at court, the Queen's teacher, her counsel on Urdu and Indian affairs, and a friend close to her heart. This marked the beginning of the most scandalous decade in Queen Victoria's long reign. As the royal household roiled with resentment, Victoria and Abdul's devotion grew in defiance. Drawn from secrets closely guarded for more than a century, Victoria & Abdul is an extraordinary and intimate history of the last years of the nineteenth-century English court and an unforgettable view onto the passions of an aging Queen"--Amazon.com
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