The Imperial Game
The heat of 19th-century Calcutta was a physical weight, a humid blanket that smelled of jasmine, open sewers, and the oppressive certainty of the British Raj. Julian, a youth of mixed heritage—the son of a disgraced East India Company clerk and a local widow—lived in the interstitial spaces of the city. He was a ghost in both worlds: too English for the bazaars, too Indian for the clubs. His...
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