Description
An elderly shopkeeper in his sixties, well-established on a wide lane of the Bara Bazaar frequented by East India Company officers. Greets customers warmly in clear, well-spoken English. His shop, Basak & Nephew’s Curiosities and Arms, has a proper wooden roof rather than a stall awning — a mark of established trade rather than tourist transience.
His display stock is gleaming, bejeweled tiger claws (bagh nakh) and ornate katars — showy but inferior, intended for buyers who cannot tell the difference.
Background
Runs the family shop with an unnamed nephew (per the shop’s name), trading in curiosities and decorative arms to a clientele of Company officers and other Europeans passing through the Bara Bazaar. Whether by long habit or necessity, his stock trades appearance for substance — the pieces on display are made to catch the eye of a buyer who will never test the blade.
Connections
- Basak and Nephews Curiosities and Arms — his shop in the Barabazar
- Sheikh Karim Bakhsh — the real armorer on Iron Lane he directed the Wentworth sisters to
- Georgiana Wentworth and Emma Wentworth — customers who exposed his tourist stock and left for Iron Lane
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- Basak and Nephews Curiosities and Arms Location neutralOwns and runs the shop on a wide lane in the Bara Bazaar1 session: By Command of His Excellency
Owns
- Basak and Nephews Curiosities and Arms Location warmThe owner1 session: By Command of His Excellency