The Maharaja's Ledger
I The jungle did not forgive. It tolerated, occasionally, but it did not forgive, and Arthur Hastings III understood this better than most men in the East India Company's service. He had come to India at twenty-two, fresh from Eton and Oxford, carrying a commission in the Bengal Infantry and a head full of romantic notions about empire and duty and the civilizing mission. He was twenty-eight...
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