The Dark Dancer by Frederic Prokosch

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1965. Pocket Books. 1st Edition thus (1st Paperback).

A novel of love and violence set against the sensual world of 17th century India based around the life of the Emperor Shah Jahan.

Lust, wealth, and ambitions ruled their lives:

Khurram - who killed his own brothers in order to seize the throne of the vast Mogul Empire.
Princess Arjumand - whose sensual beauty enslaved the heart of the cruel conqueror and for whom he built the Taj Mahal.
Nurmahal - the aged empress whose wisdom was matched only by her capacity for evil.
Parviz - who lived in a world of opium dreams and died in a nightmare of violence.