While working as a servant for Lalji, the young yuveraj (crown prince) of Gulkote, Ashton befriends the neglected princess Anjuli, in addition to the master of stables, Koda Dad, and his son Zarin.
They eventually find refuge in the kingdom of Gulkote where Ashton, now going by the name Ashok, forgets his English parentage and grows up as a native Indian boy. After discovering that all English feringhis have been killed during the uprising, Sita adopts the dark-skinned Ash and takes him in search of safety. He is entrusted to his Hindu ayah (nanny) Sita to be brought to his English relatives in the city of Mardan. His mother dies from childbed fever shortly after his birth, and his father dies of cholera a few years later. Plot summary Īshton Pelham-Martyn (Ash) is the son of a British botanist travelling through India he is born on the road shortly before the Sepoy uprising of 1857. It has sold millions of copies, caused travel agents to create tours that visited the locations in the book, and inspired a television adaptation and a musical play. It is based partly on biographical writings by the author's grandfather, as well as her knowledge of and childhood experiences in India. The novel, rooted deeply in the romantic epics of the 19th century, has been hailed as a masterpiece of storytelling. There are many parallels between this novel and Rudyard Kipling's Kim that was published in 1900: the settings, the young English boy raised as a native by an Indian surrogate mother, " the Great Game" as it was played by the British Empire and Imperial Russia. Kaye, published in 1978, which tells the story of an English officer during the British Raj. The Far Pavilions is an epic novel of British-Indian history by M.
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