We wanted to be sahibs and that's what we've become.'' He He is aware that ''except for the color of our skin, most people in India wouldn't even recognize us as Indians. Nicknamed Hardy, to desert and join a group of renegade Indians who plan to help the Japanese defeat the British and liberate India.Īrjun hesitates, and with good reasons. He is in Malaya during World War II when he is asked by a much less Anglicized colleague, Ne of the leading characters in ''The Glass Palace,'' Amitav Ghosh's fourth and most ambitious novel, is Arjun, a middle-classīengali, who as an officer in the British Indian Army has learned to dance the tango and to eat roast beef with a knife and fork. FebruThere'll Always Be an England in IndiaĪmitav Ghosh's novel traces the impact of colonialism on middle-class society.
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