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Of history and the many tales in its labyrinth


Of history and the many tales in its labyrinth
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Of history and the many tales in its labyrinth.. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, July 28 : She doesn t really remember when she heard the story of the woman she named Feroza Begum in her book. Perhaps it was one of those tales her grandmother narrated when the children gathered around in the courtyard of their rambling home. We loved to listen to the stories of bygone years as they had an immediacy, a reference point - about some relative or friend we knew, she recalls.
Author Tarana Husain Khan, whose book The Begum and the Dastan (Tranquebar) recently hit the shelves goes back to the year 1897 where in the princely state of Sherpur, Feroza Begum, beautiful and wilful, defies her family to attend the sawani celebrations at Nawab Shams Ali Khan s Benazir Palace. Feroza is kidnapped and detained in the Nawab s glittering harem, her husband is forced to divorc ....

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Anil Menon reviews 'The Begum and the Dastan' by Tarana Husain Khan


Cavils apart, this is an immersive novel, remarkable for the thoroughly Muslim world it creates
The Begum and the Dastan could have been titled ‘The Begum & Her Bluebeard’. Bluebeard has many wives Scheherazade, Jane Eyre, Rebecca and their stories are a disjointed, inverted version of the classic fairy tale: a hasty marriage, then a wooing, curiosity, secrets, and finally, a husband who’s revealed to be a monster. The Bluebeard in Tarana Husain Khan’s story is Nawab Shams Ali Khan, ruler of the princely state of Sherpur.
Like all the wives in the Bluebeard tales, the Nawab’s begum, Feroza, the beautiful blue-eyed daughter of Miya Jan Khan, a wealthy Rohilla Pathan, is an independent, curious soul. It is her curiosity that seals her doom. ....

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