Synopsis
Written while the young Rudyard Kipling worked as a journalist in Lahore, these plain tales are unrivalled as a portrait of the twin worlds of British India. Kipling's prose evokes the army stationed outside the ancient walls of a city that teems with 200,000 people of every race in Asia.
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'These wonderfully observed stories, woven round the lives of the Anglo-Indian community in the 1880s, expose the frailties of this quintessentially British society.' --The Good Book Guide, August 2008.
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Exciting and illuminating sketches from British India.
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