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Interesting view of life in colonial India. Reminded me of the first time I read The Stranger by Albert Camus, set in colonial Algeria. However, there are quite huge differences between the two books, just as different as the colonizers of the two countries were. Admittedly, I haven't read much of the history of colonial India, and I don't have much knowledge about it as much as I have about colonial Algeria (albeit the fact that I was largely mistaken when I assumed that what Camus was writing
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I often found the writing impenetrable-and therefore not an easy read. I also found the plot had little energy and to a large extent mundane. The novel certainly gave an interesting and somewhat shocking view of the attitudes of many of the British who lived in India during the Raj. Despite this none of the characters, British or Indian, male or female engaged any of my sympathy. Even the saintly Mrs Moore-why didn’t she do more to help her friend Aziz?-and Fletcher, who despite his enlightened
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