The Moneylenders of Shahpur. Helen Forrester

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       PROLOGUE

      ‘They’ll think I’m mad,’ muttered Dr John Bennett to himself, as he waited for the station porter to load his luggage into a tonga. ‘To come back to India, when so many Indians are trying to settle in the West. It won’t make sense to them, even though I was born and brought up here.’ He smiled wryly to himself. ‘Mad dogs and Englishmen …’

      For over a year now, he had been thinking seriously of returning to India. He was bored by his job as lecturer in Asian Studies. СКАЧАТЬ