The East India Wall
The monsoon rains of 1845 turned Calcutta into a city of mud and possibility. Edward Cavendish stood on the balcony of his bungalow, watching the lightning split the sky over the Hooghly River, and felt the weight of a decision that would outlive him by centuries. He was twenty-eight years old, an officer in the East India Company's service, and for the past three months he had been carrying a...
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