When The East India Company arrived in India, it made it compulsory for army men and British officials to either bring their wives along or marry a native. The British also adopted the Mughal practice of taking concubines or prostitutes as partners, which, however, became a problematic practice in the early years of the 19th … Continue reading The Mosque of Mubarak Begum
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The Impostor Prince
In the 1970s, a strange family deboarded at the New Delhi railway station, consisting of a mother and her two grown-up children. As they made their way into the first-class waiting room of the station, their luggage drew the eyes of the onlookers which consisted of beautiful Persian carpets, potted palms, a silver tea-set, a … Continue reading The Impostor Prince

