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|author=Shrabani Basu
|title=Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=Abdul Karim was a 24-year-old assistant clerk at Agra Jail when he was granted the opportunity of a lifetime – to leave India, travel to England and find employment as personal attendant to the great Empress herself, Queen Victoria. Within a year of her employing him and his introducing her to the delights of curry, she promoted him. He would no longer be a mere servant, and henceforth he was now her teacher and clerk, or Munshi, with responsibility for instructing her in Indian affairs and the Urdu language. To the dismay and ill-concealed anger of nearly all her family and household, he suddenly became one of the most conspicuous figures in the royal entourage.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752458531</amazonuk>
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|author=Shehan Karunatilaka