Author: Rosie Llewellyn-Jones (UK) 🇬🇧
Genre: History/Conflict Studies
Set in: India 🇮🇳
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The last king, Wajid Ali Shah, had recruited a number of Africans for his Hubshiyan Risala or Black Cavalry unit, formed from men brought to India by Arab slave traders. He also had a number of female African soldiers as his bodyguard, who were probably part of the Gulabi (Rose) Pultan. African men guarded the royal treasury in Qaisarbagh, and African women not only guarded the royal zenana, but some were inside it too as wives of the king.
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