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I thoroughly enjoyed the depth and breadth of this novel. The account of the time Abbas spent in Tipu’s court and his travels to France and England demonstrated the extent of British imperialism and the backdrop of world events that swirled around it. The many versions of looting, racism and posturing by the East India company are, now, well known but this book examines many of the indirect impacts and imagines how they may have been dealt with.
While this does have what may be an unrealistic happy ending I appreciated the ending as a fictional experience of the time.