Home on leave in 1875 and amazed at how little his friends knew of India, James Inglis wrote this chatty account of a planter’s life in north Bihar near the Nepal border. He describes the indigo factories and their workers, village life, wrestling matches and festivals, and the hunting expeditions that filled the cold weather.
A lively record of British India seen from a plantation veranda, with the colonial outlook of its day. Download the free EPUB.