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Isa Abdul-Karim, 42, died at about 7:25 p.m. on Sunday in the North Infirmary Command after telling staff he wasn’t feeling well. Wheelchair-bound, the inmate was held in Rikers Island on a ...
The unexpected friendship between Queen Victoria and her closest confidant, a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim, remained largely a secret until author Shrabani Basu uncovered clues into their ...
Abdul Karim Hassan, a labor lawyer in Queens, is running for president. A Guyana-born naturalized U.S. citizen, Mr. Hassan is looking at long odds. He has filed five lawsuits in which he argues ...
Dhuha Abdul-Karim, 41, of Long Island, Mr. Karim’s half sister, said she was devastated when she learned of her brother’s death Monday morning.
Abdul Karim suffered the cruelty of watching his letters from Queen Victoria being burned at Frogmore Cottage A poignant moment in history hangs over the home that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ...
A rare photo of one of Queen Victoria's favorite servants who caused controversy at the palace is to go on sale. Abdul Karim, or "the Munshi," served as the royal's butler during the final 14 ...
Queen Victoria learned Urdu, she wanted her mango and she stood by Abdul Karim. It sounds like a fantasy, but it isn’t.” Victoria and Abdul is being shown on BBC2 on Saturday 11 April at 9.15pm.
Hafiz Mohammed Abdul Karim was an Indian servant of Queen Victoria. He was born the son of a hospital assistant near Jhansi in British India in 1863. In 1887, when he was 24, ...
Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal) arrives from India to participate in Queen Victoria's (Dame Judi Dench's) golden jubilee. The young clerk is surprised to find favor with the Queen. As Victoria questions ...
The friendship had few fans at the time. “Abdul Karim, known as ‘the Munshi,’ inveigled his way into Victoria’s affections as her servant and then as a clerk,” writes Julia Baird in ...