Book Excerpt: Looking for the Last Queen of Awadh in Paris

At Père Lachaise in Paris, lies the final resting place of that remarkable woman, the last queen of Awadh. She was to some Malika Kishwar, while others knew her as Janab-i Aliyah, Her Sublime Excellency, mother to the ruler of ‘Oude’, Wajid Ali Shah. Listen to her story here from an excerpt from "The Courtesan, The Mahatma and The Italian Brahmin" by Manu S. Pillai.