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Looks like a good book to read. Thanks RBSI, with all the great books you have researched, I hope I can read all these in my lifetime.

Exactly my wish too...Arvind ! Let us atleast download them now and hope to read them someday. : )

I'm still reading your coffee table book "Wanderings of a Pilgrim" fascinating book. The author mentioned that the Nawab of Banda was from a Maharatta Hindu family, turn out he was the son of Bajirao and Mastani. Likewise in 1800 the adopted son of of Gwalior Queen banished her and she was living in tents and had a place in Beneras, wonder if that home is still there and that lineage of the family the real blood lineage!

I hope you will visit the Fanny Parkes Appreciation Society... inspired by this extraordinary travelogue - " Wanderings of a Pilgrim, in Search of the Picturesque, During Four-and-Twenty Years in the East; With Revelations of Life in the Zenana" by Fanny Parkes : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=58159561567 This site has the records and details of Fanny Parkes in one place for the first time ever. Thanks to the amazing and meticulous research of Valmay Young, Beverly Hallam and Frank Gardner...great people and passionate historians.

RBSI, The book is sometimes hard to read, old English and I could not find some of the words in the Oxford Dictionary. Do you know any Old English dictionary for this kind of reading and word look up. Likewise an old map of India would be nice to look up all the places she traveled. Some of the places may or may not have the same name. I read Travels of Pietro Del Valle and had the same problem.

This is wonderful news. Have loved Fanny Parkes for years. Thanks for posting it.

@Arvind Mallya: Perhaps our good old Hobson-Jobson may be of help. RBSI has posted that too.

I could never have imagined that mules (instead of steeds) could take us international!

Shekhar, Thanks for the tip, I downloaded the book Hobson-Jobson.

Shekhar, The Indian Army mobilised mules to Britain in 1939. They were the only Indian Army troops who served in Britain as units in 1939-1945. Other Indian's especially pilots came here, but not entire units. Large numbers of mules as pack columns were sent with the Indian Army Divisions to Eritrea in 1940 and Italy 1943-1945. Even more were sent to Burma. They went with the Chindit columns behind Japanese lines. As a child I knew an elderly man who lived in my home village who had been a Sergeant in one of these units. He said that they became extremely attached to the mules, who they looked after. The mules had all had an operation performed on their throats to cut their vocal cords so that they wouldn't give their position away by braying at an inopportune moment. Nick Balmer

very interesting, thanks Nick Balmer for posting!