I am Nandini, a nautch girl, but I used to be Jimmy Winters, a drummer boy in the service of the East India Company. I was captured at the Battle of Pollilur by the great King of Mysore, Tipu Sultan. The King (mighty is he!) ordered me and the other captured rummer boys to be dressed as nautch girls ad trained to dance. When we were trained we had to dance to entertain his court!