William Dalrymple

And she grows into quite a beauty.

She's wearing some very fancy dogs in the pictures I'm looking at here.

Breeding prize Pomeranians.

I like that.

I think you're underestimating this nice antiquarian who does some lovely antiquarian stuff.

I love the sound of him.

I'd like him even more.

I love Jacobean art.

In Brighton, of all places.

And this, I think, is a frequent feature of the colonial period, that Indians such as Gandhi come to England.

They become successful lawyers.

They have a circle of vegetarian, spiritualist, mystic-loving friends around them.

And the minute they go back to India, suddenly they're downgraded.

They become colonial subjects.

They're not treated with any respect at all.

They're treated as the colonized.

And this is what Sophia finds, having been very much, you know, the queen of crufts with her Pomeranians and all the rest of it and riding around on an early bicycle and this sort of thing.

But the colonial authorities, rather than regarding her as a top reader or whatever, regard her as a massive threat because she is the daughter of the deposed king of Punjab.

He can stir things up.

Still there, sitting in the middle of the Mall in Lahore, yeah.