Jungle Prince
New York Times
For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats who lived in a ruined palace in the Indian capital. It was a tragic, astonishing story. But was it true?
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United States
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Arts & Culture Podcasts
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New York Times
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For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats who lived in a ruined palace in the Indian capital. It was a tragic, astonishing story. But was it true?
Language:
English
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http://www.nytimes.com/
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podcasts@nytimes.com
Episodes
Chapter 3: A House in Yorkshire
12/23/2019
In a ruined palace in the woods, rummaging through discarded papers, our reporter finds a clue.
Duration:00:34:42
Chapter 2: The Hunting Lodge
12/23/2019
“Ellen, have you been trying to get in touch with the royal family of Oudh?” Our reporter receives an invitation to the forest.
Duration:00:30:43
Chapter 1: The Railway Station
12/23/2019
The story passed for years from tea sellers to rickshaw drivers to shopkeepers in Old Delhi. In a forest, they said, in a palace cut off from the city, lived a prince, a princess and a queen, said to be the last of a Shiite Muslim royal line. Some said the family had been there since the British had annexed their kingdom. Others said they were supernatural beings.
It was a stunning and tragic story. But was it real? On a spring afternoon, while on assignment in India, Ellen Barry got a...
Duration:00:31:03