: Muneeza Shamsie: In my mother’s Rampur memoir, recollections of grand feasts and delectable desserts #IndiaNEWS I wrote about my father Isha’at Habibullah (1911-1991) only to realise that his fascination

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Muneeza Shamsie: In my mother’s Rampur memoir, recollections of grand feasts and delectable desserts #IndiaNEWS
I wrote about my father Isha’at Habibullah (1911-1991) only to realise that his fascination for cooking, his adventurous approach to new and different foods, are closely linked to his tale of displacement, exile and a quest for self. In marked contrast, my mother’s awareness of good cuisine and the importance she attached to it is largely rooted in, and an assertion of, the culture in which she grew up. Both my parents shared an abiding interest in Rampur’s cultural and culinary heritage.My parents got married during my father’s pre-Partition Lahore posting. They had met during my father’s visit to the hill station, Mussoorie, when he had gone to call on her father, Sahibzada Sir Abdus Samad Khan, who was an old friend of his family.My mother, Jahanara Habibullah (1915-2003), was born and brought up in Rampur. Her father was the chief minister of the princely state. Her eldest sister Rafat Zamani Begum was married to the ruler Nawab Raza Ali Khan. Both their families were Rohilla Pathans but my mother’s forebears, the rulers of Najibabad, had been executed for the “Mutiny� of 1857. Both the Rampur and Najibabad families and that of the princely state of Loharu, to which my grandmother Sahibzadi Aliya Sultan...Read more

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