Calibre number 9500
I have now finished this book. It was well worth reading. Written in the
1930s, it is about the British in India, and how they and the Indians react
to each other, and how they behave.
The British Raj does not come out of it very well! The one or two folk who
try to treat the Indians as equals are despised my most people on both
sides. What the book clearly shows is that all people need to understand
racial differences in temperament, culture and understanding. Most of the
characters, both British and Indian, fall down badly as they judge others by
their own standards and do not recognise the differences in culture.
This is in places a deeply uncomfortable book, and also a prophetic one. It
was written before WW2 and Indian independence. But well worth reading.
Liz
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Elizabeth Lovick, Orkney, UK
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