Nourmahal, an Oriental romance. Vol. 3 of 3 by Michael J. Quin
"Nourmahal, an Oriental romance. Vol. 3 of 3" by Michael J. Quin is a romantic historical novel written in the early 19th century. Set amid the Mughal court, it follows the gifted and conflicted Nourmahal as love, duty, religion, and power collide around her; principal figures include her noble husband Shere Afkun, Emperor Jehangire, Prince Chusero, the hermit Zeinedeen, and her parents Kazim and Mangeli. Readers can expect court intrigue, harem life,
spiritual encounters, and the mounting pressures of civil war in Kashmir. The opening of the novel traces Nourmahal’s return to the fortress of Kebeer and her private counsel with the hermit Zeinedeen, who knows her family’s fortunes and warns that imperial designs threaten Prince Chusero. Three foreign missionaries arrive and recount the story of the Messiah, a revelation that captivates both Nourmahal and, soon after, the emperor himself, who—disguised as a hunter—seeks out the hermit and later attends a solemn Christian rite in a mountain cavern. While the imperial camp proposes conciliatory terms through the high chancellor Kazim, treachery brews: Bochari arranges a lavish convoy of “presents” whose concealed soldiers later storm the masquerade in the harem. In a sudden night of gunfire and panic, Afkun is slain, the prince is seized, and the devoted maid Kanun dies over her master’s body; Zeinedeen spirits Nourmahal and her parents out across the drawbridge to the hills, where at dawn they find brief solace in the missionaries’ matins. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Quin, Michael J. (Michael Joseph), 1796-1843 |
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| Title | Nourmahal, an Oriental romance. Vol. 3 of 3 |
| Original Publication | London: Henry Colburn, 1838. |
| Credits | Richard Illner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Orient -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 78143 |
| Release Date | Mar 8, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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