![]() ![]() Some they abused and then deserted, but others they married and raised families with in those easy-going early days before the Raj got its name. White Mughals by William Dalrymple (2003)īefore the memsahibs came, lonely British officers consoled themselves with their Indian bibis. It’s a children’s classic for grown-ups who are wide awake enough to get it. ![]() Because it doesn’t exactly lead anywhere, it goes everywhere. But then Kim is a very odd book weaving together Buddhism and espionage, the colourful life of the bazaar and the Grand Trunk Road. Yet it is an odd choice, this rambling story about an Irish vagabond orphan who is taken up by the British secret service and conscripted into the Great Game of repelling Russian influence in the Himalayas. ![]() If you ask any Indian writer which English book about India has meant most to them, the chances are they will say Kim. ![]()
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