A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of BhawalIn 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal--a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of twenty-six. So began one of the most extraordinary legal cases in Indian history. The case would rivet popular attention for several decades as it unwound in courts from Dhaka and Calcutta to London. |
Contents
The Facts of the Matter | 1 |
An Estate Called Bhawal | 15 |
On Hunting and Other Sports | 32 |
What Happened in Darjeeling? | 46 |
First Brush with the Law | 72 |
The House on Lansdowne Road | 81 |
A Fondness for Miracles | 97 |
The Identity Puzzle | 115 |
For the Defense | 207 |
The Climax | 223 |
Reasonings | 237 |
The Judgment | 258 |
The Appeal | 277 |
Razors Edge | 307 |
The Decision | 342 |
To London And Back | 367 |
The Trial Begins | 138 |
Darjeeling The Plaintiffs Case | 172 |
Experts on Recognition | 186 |
Notes | 389 |
Bibliography | 409 |
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A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal Partha Chatterjee No preview available - 2002 |