The Magnificent Diwan: The Life and Times of Sir Salar Jung I by Bakhtiar K. Dadabhoy. Published in 2020 by Vintage, an imprint of Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 7th Floor, Infinity Tower C, DLF Cyber City, Gurgaon 122002; website: www.penguin.co.in. Pp: lxxxii + 477. Price: Rs 999.
Think "Salar Jung” and the famous museum in Hyderabad immediately comes to mind. The Salar Jung Museum is famed for its rare and valuable collection of art and antiquities assembled by Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, Salar Jung III. While the Museum ensures that the name of the now extinct Salar Jung family......