Flora Annie Steel spent two decades in the Punjab, and these stories come from the India she knew: a church gong struck at dawn by old Deen Mahomed, the title tale of the railway line, Glory-of-Woman, the great Durbar, The Blue-Throated God and a soldier’s comic misadventures at the king’s well. Villagers, officials and private soldiers all speak in their own voices.
Vivid Anglo-Indian fiction, its imperial outlook that of the 1890s but its sympathy with Indian life unusually deep. Download the free EPUB.