The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo Indian MP and Chancery "Lunatic" (Columbia/Hurst)
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The descendent of German and French Catholic mercenaries, a Scots Presbyterian subaltern, and their secluded Indian wives, David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre defied all classification in the North Indian principality where he was raised. Add to these influences an adoptive mother who began as a Muslim courtesan and rose to become the Catholic ruler of a strategically-placed, cosmopolitan little kingdom, which her foster son was destined to inherit, and...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:023170108X
ISBN13:9780231701082
Release Date:May 2010
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:384 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:8.8" x 1.0" x 5.8"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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