The Far Pavilions

A magnificent romantic historical adventure novel set in India at the time of the Mutiny. The Far Pavilions is a story of 19th-century India, when the thin patina of English rule held down dangerously turbulent undercurrents. It is a story about an Englishman — Ashton Pelham-Martyn — brought up as a Hindu, and his passionate but dangerous love for an Indian princess. It is a story of divided loyalties, of tender camaraderie, of greedy imperialism and of the clash between East and West. To the burning plains and snow-capped mountains of this great, humming continent, M. M. Kaye brings her quite exceptional gift of immediacy and meticulous historical accuracy, plus her insight into the human heart.