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Index
Cover
Also by Charles Allen
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface: Blowing the Family Trumpet
Maps
Introduction: ‘Seek not to question’
1 ‘Mother of cities’: Bombay and a beginning, 1865–7
2 ‘Youth in the eye of the sun’: Bombay and expulsion from Eden, 1867–71
3 ‘A double death’: Southsea and Lahore, 1871–7
4 ‘One school of many’: United Services College, Westward Ho!, and Bikaner House, Lahore, 1877–82
5 ‘As a prince entering his kingdom’: Lahore and Simla, 1882–3
6 ‘The seething city’: Lahore and the Family Square, 1883–4
7 ‘The Oldest Land’: The Punjab and Simla, 1885
8 ‘In vigil or toil or ease’: The Plains and the Hills, 1886
9 ‘Forty foolish yarns’: From Lahore to Allahabad, 1887–8
10 ‘Who travels the fastest’: Simla, Allahabad and an ending, 1888–9
11 ‘Life and Death … and Love and Fate’: London and fame, 1889–91
12 ‘Try as he will’: Weddings and funerals, Vermont and Sussex, 1892–9
Envoi: ‘In the faith of little children’: Kim and after, 1899–1936
Illustrations
Notes
Glossary
Select bibliography
Index
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