num_pages: 429
description: This book tells the incredible story of the prince as pauper, of pauper as resurrected prince. Partha Chatterjee's retelling of the notoriously famous 'Bhawal Sannyasi Case' - one of India's best known and most historic legal battles - is narrative history of the finest kind. It is an epic story of war within a household which spills out into the social life of colonial Bengal; and beyond, into the administrative and legal fabric of India during the heyday of nationalism; and then beyond that again, into spirituality and philosophy, legend and folklore, theatre and cinema.
language: English
title: A Princely Impostor? The Kumar Of Bhawal And The Secret History Of Indian Nationalism
titlecomplete: A Princely Impostor? The Kumar Of Bhawal And The Secret History Of Indian Nationalism
genres: India, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 117
publisher: Permanent Black