Last Prince of Bengal - A Family''s Journey From an Indian Palace to the Australian Outback

About the author

Lyn Innes is the great-granddaughter of His Royal Highness, the last Nawab Nizam of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. Born and educated in Australia, she moved to North America and developed her interest in cultural nationalism, focusing on Irish, African, African American and Caribbean literatures. She earned a PhD from Cornell University and taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she became associate editor of OKIKE: An African Journal of New Writing, founded by Chinua Achebe. Innes co-edited two volumes of African short stories with Achebe. Innes is currently Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent, Canterbury.

Product details

• Authors: Innes, Lyn Innes
• Publisher: Saqi Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.2021
• EAN: 9781908906519
• ISBN: 978-1-908906-51-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty, HISTORY / Modern / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, India, Colonialism & imperialism, c 1500 onwards to present day, Biography: royalty, Colonialism and imperialism