Vanishing Indian Upper Class - Life History of Raza Mohammed Khan

The Vanishing Indian Upper Class is based on a life-narrative [true-life story] and contains various elements of history, politics, religion, literature and poetry. In anonymized form it dramatizes a personal family history focused around a continuing and unresolved family inheritance and property dispute, which provides the story with its dramatic tension. The main subjects in the narrative which speaks beyond the life story itself are: the human spirit; honor; betrayal; violence; love; politics; and those bonds beyond kith and kin known as comradeship and engagement. The work covers two continents involving the Indian upper class and describes how Raza Mohammed Khan and his family legacy is revealed.

List of contents

Part One; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Family Tapestry; Chapter 3 Amadabad's Zenith: The Life and Times of Nawab Ali Mohammad; Chapter 4 Nawab Dawood Ahmad; Chapter 5 Raza's Early Childhood; Chapter 6 Raza's Later Childhood and Adolescence; Chapter 7 Beginning of an Exile: Boarding School; Chapter 8 The Wedding of Zainab and Hurr; Chapter 9 Abid Arrives to Join Raza; Chapter 10 The School Rebel; Chapter 11 Crammers; Chapter 12 Secret Love; Chapter 13 Journey Home; Chapter 14 Return to London and Shireen; Chapter 15 Farewell to Shireen; Chapter 16 Down but Not Out; Chapter 17 The Garret; Part Two Ithaka; Chapter 18 An Indian Odyssey; Chapter 19 Nawab Dawood Ahmad in Pakistan; Chapter 20 Bombay Itinerary; Chapter 21 The Return; Chapter 22 Raza's Second Aldermaston March; Chapter 23 Tess and Raza; Part Three; Chapter 24 The Decline; Chapter 25 Ibn Dawood's Claim; Chapter 26 Ibn Dawood's Victory; Chapter 27 Raza and Maysam; Chapter 28 The Ugly Portraits of Ibn Dawood and Begum; Chapter 29 The Sad and Tragic Deaths of Hurr Bhai and Zainab Baji; Chapter 30 Raza Visits His Ailing Sister; Chapter 31 Tragic Ends; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Raza Mohammed Khan, Terry Williams, Terry Khan Williams
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781785274435
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-443-5
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Anthem Studies in South Asian; Anthem Studies in South Asian Literature, Aesthetics and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Asiatische Geschichte, Politik und Staat, Indischer Subkontinent, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes, Sociology: customs & traditions, History - General History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, Asian History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), HISTORY / Asia / South / General, history; political science