Rajah's

The assault on the Rajah's fort which brings the opera to its conclusion is similar not only to Clive's victory at Tritchinopoly which ended French presence in the region, but also to a series of sieges conducted by Cornwallis against Tipu's drug fortresses in the region of Barramah'lhence the title "Ramah Droog."

Through Colonial Spectacles: the Irish Vizier and the Female-Knight in James Cobb 2000

In order to get a clear Idea of the Deb Rajah's Presence Chamber you have only to look at the very elegant plan of it annexed.

Colonial Correspondence: The Letters of George Bogle from Bengal, Bhutan and Tibet, 1770-81 2000

In a gesture that marks the play as another phantasmatic engagement with the events of the Black Hole of Calcutta, Cobb's opera is set almost entirely with the prison space of the Rajah's palace Ramah Droog.

Through Colonial Spectacles: the Irish Vizier and the Female-Knight in James Cobb 2000

He pestered Manu Bappoo, pleading to be allowed to take his Cobras down to where the pioneers were driving the road, but the Rajah's brother adamantly refused to let Dodd's men leave the fortress.

Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

Arab guards stood at the gate of the Rajah's garden.

Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

Certainly not valour, nor generosity, but the Rajah was fortunate in his brother, for Bappoo was loyal and evidently determined to make up for the Rajah's shortcomings.

Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

He'll march you away as a prisoner, he'll slight these walls and take away the Rajah's treasures.

Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

Beny Singh was the fortress commander and though he was a despicable coward he was also a friend of the Rajah's, and that friendship ensured the loyalty of much of Gawilghur's standing garrison.

Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

He was the fortress commander, but he was a courtier by avocation, not a soldier, and he had always regarded his command of the great fortress as a licence to make his fortune rather than to fight the Rajah's enemies.

Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

Opposite him, behind an honour guard of the King's 73rd, Appah Rao, now in the Rajah's service, also watched the cortege approach.

Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997