There are four secondary characters in the play – Rani’s employer Lord Oakham, Indian politician Dadabhai Naoroji, Queen Victoria’s servant Lady Sarah and Lascar Sally. Some of the ...

One of them is Khurshedben Naoroji, who was born in 1894 into an elite Parsi family. Her grandfather, Dadabhai Naoroji, was India's first nationalist leader and the first Indian to serve in the ...