Zelaldinus: A Masque

Author:

Irwin Allan Sealy

Publisher:

ALEPH BOOK COMPANY

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Publisher

ALEPH BOOK COMPANY

Publication Year 2017
ISBN-13

9789386021076

ISBN-10 9386021072
Binding

Paperback

Number of Pages 168 Pages
Language (English)
Dimensions (Cms) 12.95 x 0.97 x 19.79
Weight (grms) 186

On a camel’s back hill beyond Agra stands a Redstone citadel altogether different from the white marble Taj Mahal. Fatehpur Sikri is the capital Akbar built to honour the saint who foretold the birth of his first son. In the inner court of the king’s palace is a broad stone terrace with a chequered pattern that resembles a game board. Here, accounts say, Akbar played a kind of chess using human pieces from his harem of three hundred. Costumed in various guises, his women would have presented lively masques upon this stage.Zelaldinus mounts such a pageant, glittering and fantastical, where past and present, nobles and commoners, history and fiction rub shoulders. Its variety of verse and prose forms evoke the carnival spirit of a masque. Underlying the depiction of a rich and varied court life at Sikri are reflections on kingship, a meditation on fathers and sons and a plot within a plot that tells a crackling story of love across the Pakistan border—while through it all strides the nimble ghost of Akbar himself. Jalaluddin (Zelaldinus) Akbar

Irwin Allan Sealy

Irwin Allan Sealy was born in Allahabad in 1951 and educated in Lucknow and Delhi. He is the author of The Trotter-Nama, The Everest Hotel, The Brain fever Bird and other novels and a travelogue, From Yukon to Yucatan. He lives in Dehradun, where he is apprenticed to a bricklayer
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