Download or read book An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad written by Benjamin B. Cohen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Cohen tells the dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth-century India and whose notorious trial reverberated throughout the British Empire, setting the benchmark for Victorian scandals. In the struggle of one couple, he exposes the fault lines that would soon tear a world apart.