Passage to Europe
What was an Indian prince doing in the retinue of a French envoy at Constantinople in 1796? When Sultan Selim III, struck by the unusual sight of a fellow Muslim in a French cortège, asked how this prince had come to be there, Ahmad Khan began to tell him his extraordinary story.
A Passage to Europe traces Ahmad Khan’s journey from Gujarat to Constantinople, revolutionary France, London and back ag...
What was an Indian prince doing in the retinue of a French envoy at Constantinople in 1796? When Sultan Selim III, struck by the unusual sight of a fellow Muslim in a French cortège, asked how this prince had come to be there, Ahmad Khan began to tell him his extraordinary story.
A Passage to Europe traces Ahmad Khan’s journey from Gujarat to Constantinople, revolutionary France, London and back ag...
