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Mirza Moorad ‘Gaekwaree’ Alee Beg : Lalun the Beragun or the Battle of Panipat: A legend of Hindoostan

This growing interest in Indian India was further whetted by Ruddy's reading of a new novel "Lalun the Bergun, or the Battle of Panipat: A legend of Hindoostan", published in Bombay earlier in 1884 by one Mirza Moorad Alee Beg 'Gaekwaree' a Native Bhavangar princely state. It was thought to be the first-ever novel written in English by Muslim ... Alee Beg was a fraud: no Indian but an English clergyman’s son who converted to Islam ... and then became a Theosophist after meeting Madame Blavatsky in Bombay. After her public exposure in 1882-3 ... he had to be confined" (comment: Alee Beg died insane)

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Rudyard Kipling      Print: Book

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