SYNOPSIS: A novel of life in an Indian garrison town, Amritpore, this story tells of the attraction and repulsion among the French, English, and natives who live in uneasy proximity. Representative of the ruling English are John Macbeth and his pretty cousin, Bertie Wood, old Mrs. Lyttleton, and various officials. Among the French residents, the widowed Madame de St. Remy despises the English. She is insanely jealous of Mrs. Lyttleton, whom she accuses of having alienated her husband from her and from his faith, and who has befriended Madame’s dark-haired son Jacques. Jacques has both English and native friends, particularly the young Hindu, Hardyal. Hardyal’s father, Ganpat Rai, is friendly toward the English, but the dour, suspicious Moslem, Abdul Salim, hates them. Salim’s seditious utterances have already roused official anger.
SYNOPSIS: A novel of life in an Indian garrison town, Amritpore, this story tells of the attraction and repulsion among the English, French, and natives who live there in uneasy proximity. Representative of the ruling English are John Macbeth and his attractive cousin, Bertie Wood, old Mrs. Lyttleton, and Aubrey Wall, the Civil Engineer. Wall detests natives and in a fit of violence kicks to death an opium-drugged Moslem servant.
SYNOPSIS: A novel of life in an Indian garrison town, Amritpore, this story centers in the household of Madame de St, Remy, a French widow who owns and operates an indigo factory. She despises the English colony, particularly eccentric old Mrs. Lyttleton, who has befriended Madame’s dark-haired son, young Jacques de St. Remy. Jacques has an intimate of his own age, Hardyal, a sensitive young Hindu. To break up these friendships, his mother sends Jacques off to school in the Indian uplands. There he chums up with a schoolmate,
SYNOPSIS: This is a novel of life in an Indian garrison town, Amritpore. The story centers in the household of Madame de St. Remy, a French widow who owns and operates an indigo factory. She despises the English colony, which is dominated by an eccentric old lady, Mrs. Lyttleton. There is violent jealousy between the two women, which is fanned by their affection for the dark-haired Jacques de St. Remy, Madame ’s fourteen-yearold son. Jacques has a friend of his own age, Hardyal, a sensitive young Hindu. Madame de St. Remy resents Hardyal, as she resents all outside claims upon her son. But the friendship persists. When Hardyal is sent to school in England by his father, Ganpat Rai, Jacques in his loneliness turns to the comfort of Mrs. Lyttleton. Thereupon his mother ships him off to school in the Indian uplands.