The Last Prince of Bengal

The Nawab Nazim ruled the vast territories of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa until 1880, when his marriage to an English servant, Sarah Vennell, gave the British the opportunity to depose him. In this revealing exploration of race, sex, class and religion in the British Empire, his Australian-born great-granddaughter recounts his story, the subsequent history of the family, and her own efforts to retrace her Indian heritage.