<P> Until the publication of Frederick Ponsonby's memoirs in 1951, there was little biographical material on the Munshi . Scholarly examination of his life and relationship with Victoria began around the 1960s, focusing on the Munshi as "an illustration of race and class prejudice in Victorian England". Mary Lutyens, in editing the diary of her grandmother Edith (wife of Lord Lytton, Viceroy of India 1876--80), concluded, "Though one can understand that the Munshi was disliked, as favourites nearly always are...One cannot help feeling that the repugnance with which he was regarded by the Household was based mostly on snobbery and colour prejudice ." Victoria biographer Elizabeth Longford wrote, "Abdul Karim stirred once more that same royal imagination which had magnified the virtues of John Brown...Nevertheless, (it) insinuated into her confidence an inferior person, while it increased the nation's dizzy infatuation with an inferior dream, the dream of Colonial Empire ." </P> <P> Historians agree with the suspicions of her Household that the Munshi influenced the Queen's opinions on Indian issues, biasing her against Hindus and favouring Muslims . But suspicions that he passed secrets to Rafiuddin Ahmed are discounted . Victoria asserted that "no political papers of any kind are ever in the Munshi's hands, even in her presence . He only helps her to read words which she cannot read or merely ordinary submissions on warrants for signature . He does not read English fluently enough to be able to read anything of importance ." Consequently, it is thought unlikely that he could have influenced the government's Indian policy or provided useful information to Muslim activists . </P> <P> The 2017 feature film Victoria & Abdul, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Ali Fazal as Abdul Karim and Judi Dench as Queen Victoria, offers a fictionalised version of the relationship between Karim and the queen . </P> <Ol> <Li> Jump up ^ Basu, p. 22 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Basu, pp. 22--23 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Basu, p. 23 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Basu, pp. 23--24 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Basu, p. 24 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Basu, p. 25 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Victoria to Lord Lansdowne, 18 December 1890, quoted in Basu . p. 87 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Basu, pp. 26--27 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Anand, p. 13 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Basu, p. 33 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Quoted in Anand, p. 15 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Quoted in Basu, p. 38 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Quoted in Basu, p. 43; Hibbert, p. 446 and Longford, p. 502 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Quoted in Basu, p. 44 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Basu, p. 48 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Basu, p. 57 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Basu, p. 49 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Quoted in Basu, p. 60 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Marina Warner's Queen Victoria's Sketchbook, quoted in "Abdul Karim". 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