FREE BEGUMS, THUGS AND WHITE MUGHALS: V. 8 PDF Fanny Parks,Fanny Parkes Parlby,Fanny Parkes,William Dalrymple | 400 pages | 01 Jan 2003 | Eland Publishing Ltd | 9780907871880 | English | London, United Kingdom Fanny Parkes, Begums, Thugs and White Mughals - Slightly Foxed Shop Her journals trace her transformation from a prim memsahib to an eccentric, sitar-playing Indophile, fluent in Urdu, critical of British rule and passionate in her appreciation of Indian culture. Fanny is fascinated by the trial of thugs, the adorning Begums Hindu brides and swears by the efficacy of opium on headaches. Click here to cancel reply. In their Tales from Shakespearegentle-hearted drunken-dog Charles wrote the tragedies and Mary, often chided for laughing, the comedies, and together they penned Begums using different coloured inks. 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Fanny is fascinated by the trial of thugs, the adorning of a Hindu bride and swears by the efficacy of opium on headaches. To read her is to get as close as one can to a true Thugs and White Mughals: v. 8 of early colonial India -the sacred and the profane, the violent and the beautiful, the straight-laced sahibs and the 'White Mughals' who fell in love with India, married Indian wives and built bridges between the two cultures. About the Author Fanny Parks went to India in and spent the next 24 years travelling the country. She was the daughter of an army officer in India and the wife of a civil servant stationed at Allahabad. He was born in Scotland, but now divides his time between London and Delhi. A rare and delightful travelogue By SGY A rare and delightful travelogue Fanny Parkes should be ever grateful to William Dalrymple for rediscovering and bringing out her 'unique and wonderful' travelogue on India - the long-titled " Wanderings of a Pilgrim in search of the Pictureseque, During four and twenty years in the East; with revelations of Life in the Zenana" originally published in by Pelham Richardson It is 'unique' because Fanny Parkes is at once an observant, fluent, compassionate, intelligent and fairly without prejudice as a travel writer in the mid 19th century when British arrogance on the colonised peoples colored almost all printed material written in the english language. This book is one rare exception. Its 'wonderful', because the writing style of Parkes is amazingly contemporary and unless one is reminded, it would be impossible to guess that Begums journals were written almost years ago. Her observations cover almost all aspects of a European living and travelling Thugs and White Mughals: v. 8 's in India. Her journal is like a rare encyclopedia on all things Indian Begums peppered with thousands of anecdotes on all the nuances and nuggets Thugs and White Mughals: v. 8 daily life. One of the most enjoyable and priceless books Unlike many of the Brits in India, later in the 's, Fanny writes with empathy and affection for what she experiences and sees in this amazing sub continent. She obviously threw herself into her life there with gusto, and an insatiable curiosity to see and learn more. As an Indophile, I relished reading Fanny's journal as it gave me a vicarious experience of being there Thugs and White Mughals: v. 8 that time. I was struck by what has changed in Modern Begums and by what has not. Unwittingly Fanny was a forerunner of some Thugs and White Mughals: v. 8 today's excellent travel writers. Corbett was quite 'Indianized' for an early 20th century Englishman. The phrase describing people like Corbett used to be 'he had gone native in India' but Salman Rushdie coined the more delightfully colorful term 'Chutnified' for the same phenomenon to quote Dalrymple! This book by Fanny Parkes is about her gradual chutnification in India from toas seen through her travel diaries. William Dalrymple, who has selected excerpts from her diaries to bring out this book, has also written a beautiful introduction which succinctly Begums up the book in ten pages! Fanny Parkes was the wife Begums a minor civil servant of the Raj and came to live in India in with her husband in Allahabad. Unlike other 'memsahib's, she soon starts out exploring northern India on her own, observing and documenting the culture, customs and practices, learning to play the sitar, learning the Urdu language which was spoken in much of the parts where she lived and travelled, trying opium and inevitably ending up getting totally Indianized. Her accounts of India and Indians are intimate, full of understanding and devoid of the tone that speaks of India as mainly 'heat and dust'. How else Begums one come up with a statement like " In short, her transformational journey is captured by a few sentences at both ends of her own journals. InThugs and White Mughals: v. 8 writes: " Whereas, towards the end of her time in India in the s, she writes about the pleasure of 'vagabondizing in India' and Begums more, as she lands back in London later, " Everything on landing was so wretchedly mean, especially the houses, which are built of slate stone; it was cold and gloomy. I felt a little disgusted. It seems there was an abundance of wildlife in India then. She writes as she journeys along the river valleysThugs and White Mughals: v. 8 follows: " I saw ten crocodiles basking in the sun, all close together; some turtle and great white birds were on a Begums near them; on the river's edge, were three enormous alligators On the other hand, in the Kingdom of Oude Audhshe writes about 'entertainment with animals', which to say the least, sounds cruel and horrible Begums. Two rhinos are made to fight and they charge the onlooking crowd fiercely. Parkes, however, writes that 'it was beautiful to see the mass of people flying before them! Elsewhere, she says, " I saw three deer yesterday. Poverty in India also was evident in her accounts when she says that the poor cannot afford enough wood to burn their dead and so one regularly sees half-burnt dead bodies floating in rivers, ravaged by birds, stray dogs and other animals. I would have thought that rivers in India may have been quite clean and without much pollution in the s. The sacred Jamuna river in today's Delhi and Agra is just a sewer. In the s, Parkes writes, " Her description of the Chambal river says, ". She writes that her servants invariably wanted leave of absence to go watch 'the fun' and that often the woman was unwilling but the dead man's family forced her Begums the pyre because they can then lay Begums to his property. In his introduction, Dalrymple quotes Colin Thubron as saying, " Fanny Parkes' diaries record the transitory moments of her Indian travels in that spirit.