The Last King in India

The thousands of mourners who lined Wajid Ali Shah's funeral route on 21 September 1887 with their loud wailing and shouted prayers were not only marking the passing of the last king but also the passing of an intangible connection to old India before the Europeans came. This is the story of a man whose memory continues to divide opinion today. Was Wajid Ali Shah as the British believed a debauched ruler who spent his time with fiddlers eunuchs and fairies when he should have been running his ki...See More