Kings palace summary in hindi
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Rajkumar, an 11-year-old Indian boy in Burma, is the only person in Mandalay to recognize the sound of cannon fire approaching the city. After sailing to the city on a sampan, he is told to find work with Ma Cho, who runs a food stall near the palace. When Ma Cho discovers that Rajkumar is an orphan, she agrees to give him a job.
While working on the stall, Rajkumar becomes fascinated by the Glass Palace inside the citadel and asks Ma Cho repeatedly about the royal family who live within. Due to Rajkumar’s Indian heritage, he will not be allowed inside. One morning, he meets Saya John, Ma Cho’s occasional lover. Saya John speaks Hindustani but is not from India and makes his living delivering supplies to the teak camps. When he and Rajkumar talk, Saya John reveals that he was raised by Catholic priests in Malacca.
One holiday, Saya John introduces his son, Mathew. He pays Rajkumar to take Mathew to a festival. As they sit and eat peanuts, Rajkumar tells Mathew how his family died when a plague struck their town. Mathew warns Rajkumar that he and his father will leave the next day; they believe the British are coming, bringing war. In the following days, panic sets in around the city. The king issues a proclamation saying that he has beaten the British in battle, but this is a lie. The British arrive the next day and Rajkumar hears their cannons approach the city.
With the British guns echoing in the distance, the royal family inside the palace listen carefully. Though she is late in her third pregnancy, Queen Supayalat, the king’s chief consort, climbs a guard post to listen. She has with her a crowd of young attendants who care for her two daughters. Among these handmaids is Dolly, a slender 10-year-old and the only one who can control the second princess’s fits of anger.
Dolly was bought by Queen Supayalat at a very young age and has no memory of her parents. On this particular morning, she struggles to keep the baby princess calm. The loud guns frighten the baby. The queen fires question after question at the guards, but they provide no answers. She remembers the build-up to the war: a dispute with the British over timber in which the British were–in her view–evidently wrong. The queen has pressured the king into not backing down to the British despite their martial might.
Guards beg the queen to retreat to a safe place. They hassle Dolly, urging her to descend a flight of stairs. Dolly believes the princess is too heavy and that she will drop the baby. The queen intervenes and, together, they run and hide in a dark, damp room with heavy doors.
Hours later, a dispatch informs them that a general has defeated the British. The queen disregards this as lies. Hours after that, the truth emerges: the British have defeated the local forces with ease. Two ministers are competing to hand over the royal family to the invaders. After just fourteen days, the Burmese army surrenders to the invaders.