From the borders of icy Kashmir to the shark-infested shores of the Malabar Coast, Major William Russell, the English Resident of the small, princely state of Rajpore, is renowned as a straitlaced man of rigorous habit. When his valet knocks on his b...
December, 1911. All of India is in a tizzy. A vast tent city has sprung up outside the old walled enclave of Mughal Delhi, where the British are hosting a grand Durbar to celebrate the coronation of the new King, George V. From across India, all the ...
"Summer, 1912Maharaja Sikander Singh of Rajpore, barely returned from his adventures at the Delhi Durbar, receives an invitation to the wedding of his childhood tutor, Peter Rowan. Ever eager to escape his princely duties, he travels to Bombay to att...