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Poet Under A Soldier's Hat

Poet Under A Soldier's Hat

Rose, E. P.

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Adventurers & ExplorersMilitary BiographiesIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 098611880X
ISBN13: 9780986118807
Publisher: Studio on 41
Published: Feb 7 2015
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
100 years of Colonial Rule in British India 1850-1947 through the personal stories of one family. Caught in two World Wars, pre Mutiny skirmishes, and the Great Sepoy Rebellion the true saga of lives not so pukkha as might be supposed. Hugh Rose's back-story exposes child marriage, social taboos, adulterous affairs over many summers in a Himalayan Hill Station, illegitimate pregnancies and banishment to England. More a poet than a soldier, Hugh, a British Officer of the Raj, serves with the 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles in the Kyber Pass bordering the Northwest Frontier Afghanistan. Gentlemen's sports, bandits, tribal warlords, missionaries, ordinary men and ghosts are not enough. Bored, Hugh seconds to the Political and Foreign Service in Arabia, Persia, and Waziristan, until disgraced, he is invited to return to his regiment after five years. A naked Colonel's dictum conformity kills guides Hugh's adventurous life. Partition frees both India and Hugh.

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