An Appeal to the Ladies of HyderabadThe dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth century India and whose notorious trial and fall reverberated throughout the British Empire, setting the benchmark for Victorian scandals. In April 1892, a damning pamphlet circulated in the south Indian city of Hyderabad, the capital of the largest and wealthiest princely state in the British Raj. An anonymous writer charged Mehdi Hasan, an