Loading images...
The Prince Who Beat the Empire: How an Indian Ruler Took on the Might of the East India Company, by Moin Mir
€7.00
Quay Books
An acclaimed history of empire and resistance: this is the moving story of the rebel prince who beat the world’s most powerful corporation.
The ships of the East India Company first docked at India's shores in Surat in the early 17th century. In time, through astute politics and military power, the Company became masters of this great port.
By 1800 the port was completely annexed, through a Treaty that gave protection to future generations of the local Nawab rulers. But, as elsewhere in India, the Company violated its promises. It stopped the family’s income, usurping its palaces, estates, jewellery and possessions.
This left the infant granddaughters of the last Nawab on the brink of destitution. But in an unprecedented counter-attack, the father of the two girls stood to defy the Empire and expose its corruption overseas to the British at home.
Traveling to London, he would shatter the Company's reputation. His campaign for justice would call for the end of British rule in Hindustan. Not only did the prince win back the family's possessions for his daughters but found true love in Victorian England.
More from Quay Books Browse Quay Books All
Memorial of John Hervey Gosden, comprising a selection of his letters and sermons, together with some account of his life and labours, by S. F. Paul.
€7.00
St Anne in Renaissance Music: Devotion and Politics, by Michael Alan Anderson
€20.00
€125.00
84% off
Walls, by Brad Holdgrafer
€7.00
€15.00
53% off
The Last Book Party, by Karen Dukess
€4.00
€24.00
83% off
The Real War 1914-1918, by Captain B. H. Liddell Hart
€7.00
€17.00
58% off
Less Nonsense, by A P Herbert
€6.00
Introducing Islam: A Graphic Guide, by Ziauddin Sardar, Illustrated by Zafar Abbas Malik
€5.00
€10.00
50% off
Titles to Fame, edited by Denys Kilham Roberts.
€15.00