He is entrusted to his Hindu ayah (nanny) Sita to be brought to his English relatives in the city of Mardan. His mother dies from childbed fever shortly after his birth, and his father dies of cholera a few years later. Plot summary Īshton Pelham-Martyn (Ash) is the son of a British botanist travelling through India he is born on the road shortly before the Sepoy uprising of 1857. It has sold millions of copies, caused travel agents to create tours that visited the locations in the book, and inspired a television adaptation and a musical play. It is based partly on biographical writings by the author's grandfather, as well as her knowledge of and childhood experiences in India. The novel, rooted deeply in the romantic epics of the 19th century, has been hailed as a masterpiece of storytelling.
There are many parallels between this novel and Rudyard Kipling's Kim that was published in 1900: the settings, the young English boy raised as a native by an Indian surrogate mother, " the Great Game" as it was played by the British Empire and Imperial Russia. Kaye, published in 1978, which tells the story of an English officer during the British Raj. The Far Pavilions is an epic novel of British-Indian history by M.
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