This first volume opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for self-rule. Daphne Manners, daughter of the province governor, is running at night through the Mayapore gardens, away from her Indian lover, who will soon be arrested for her alleged rape.

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Paperback, 16th Edition

ISBN13: 9780226743400

University of Chicago Press, 1998

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