![]() ![]() Divided into three sections, the first section of the story deals with Ash’s childhood in the kingdom of Gulkote, at the Hawa Mahal (Palace of the Winds), and this was the part I liked the most. ![]() ![]() The story mostly hinges upon the life and activities of Ashton Pelham-Martyn, who, born to an English couple somewhere in the Himalayas, ends up in the arms of a Hindu lady, and for the first ten years of his life thinks of himself as a Hindu and an Indian. At a whopping 1000 pages (!), it’s something of an epic, but you don’t even feel the pages fly past, it’s that good. It has a really good Goodreads rating, so I decided to give it a try. The author is Mary Margaret Kaye, whose husband, father, grandfather and brother all served the Raj in India, and who seems to have led a very interesting life, by all accounts. Ok, so I stumbled upon this one when I was searching for historical books on India. ![]()
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