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But throughout the harrowing documents are tinged with hopefulness born of the pluck that makes the Indian civil servant such a strenuous fighter of famine, plague, and pestilence. In the course ...

“We put ‘Famine’ in inverted commas because we questioned ... referring to the “‘poor Indian’ sending his mite to the poor Irish!” What moved him, Mullan says, was the context ...

A novel, no doubt, but what no one knows is that it did refer to India’s first war of Independence. Not the Sepoy Mutiny of ...