In the cantonment of Ramghur, as the hot weather empties the club and the brain-fever bird returns, a bright young girl nicknamed Angel becomes the ward of an officer, Philip Gascoigne. The station’s wives soon have plenty to say about the arrangement, and Croker follows the picnics, dresses, mess dinners and scandal of Anglo-Indian life.
A light romance of the Raj by a writer who knew its society well; its colonial outlook is very much of the 1890s. Download the free EPUB.