Written as newspaper letters by the young Kipling, these sketches follow a self-mocking globe-trotter who escapes the office for the native states of Rajputana. He visits the Taj, meets a young man from Manchester, and moves through Jaipur, Udaipur and the ruined fort of Chitor, where a new carriage-drive sits badly with the shadow of ancient beauty.
Early Kipling at his most lively and opinionated, for readers of his Indian work. Download the free EPUB.