India – A Literary Companion –

“… Many of the authors quoted here, such as Naipaul, Kipling, Chaudhuri and Forster, will be familiar to lovers of literature, but the real joys are often to be found in material rarely seen before – in the unpublished diaries of colonial housewives, the letters of French botanists, the reflections of returning exiles. India is overwhelming in its beauty, its melancholy, its sheer richness and diversity; no other culture can offer such a range of experience, and Bruce Palling has truly done it justice here.”

Contents: Illustrations, Author’s Note, Arrival, Climate, Mutiny and Paritition, The Rulers, Religon, Travel and Transport, The Great Cities, Village India, Maharajas, Departure, Notes, Acknowledgements, Index.