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Mistress of Men: A Novel

by Flora Annie Steel
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9788121294959
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
  • Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
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  • Pages: 380
  • Original Price: INR 1500.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 744 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): N/A

It is impossible that the life of Nurjahan the Beautiful should remain unwritten. Of reliable historical incident much is available, of equally reliable tradition still more; the whole going to make up a life marvellous in its romance, touching in its humanity. In this sketch of it I have adhered in all matters of importance to the evidence of contemporaneous witnesses. That I have given a different complexion to them in many cases, I admit; but no careful student of character and motive could avoid doing so. Briefly, Nurjahan's extraordinary personality and power—which even in these days would raise criticism in a woman—exposed her in the seventeenth century to inevitable traducing. Sinister motives were found for her every action; above all, personal ambition was held to be her ruling motive. This assertion is, to my mind, pulverized by the undenied fact that, after her husband, the Emperor Jahangir's, death, she voluntarily retired from all public life and lived a widow indeed. In like manner she is credited with much plotting and planning, of which—beyond the statement of her enemies—no trace is to be found either in her character or her actions. Thus, her sudden abandonment of Shahjahan is set down to personal pique and greed; but it is curiously coincident with his brother Khushrau's sudden death when in the former's custody; a death suspicious of poison to many, even in those days.

Flora Annie Steel (2 April 1847–12 April 1929) was a writer who lived in British India for 22 years. She was noted especially for books set in the Indian sub-continent or connected with it. Her novel On the Face of the Waters (1896) describes incidents in the Indian Mutiny. She was born Flora Annie Webster at Sudbury Priory, Sudbury, Middlesex, the sixth child of George Webster. Flora was interested in relating to all classes of Indian society. The birth of her daughter gave her a chance to interact with local women and learn their language. She encouraged the production of local handicrafts and collected folk-tales, a collection of which she published in 1894.

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