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The Glass Palace is an ambitious book - it's an epic, tracing the fortunes of an extended family of colonial bourgeoise from the height of British power in India to its collapse. Four people come together: Dolly, an attendant to the Burmese royal family; Uma, the wife of a Indian Civil Service office - an actual Indian, a rarity in the late 19th Century; Saya John, a Malaysian Christian teak merchant working in Burma; finally, Rajkumar, an Indian orphan who becomes a self-made timber baron in Bu
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