Zemindar / Valerie Fitzgerald.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Head of Zeus, 2014Copyright date: ©1981Description: 830 pages : maps ; 23 cmContent type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781781859544 (pbk); 178185954X (pbk)Subject(s): Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Love stories | India -- History -- Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858 -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Love stories. DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: A magnificent, twisting, turning love story unfolds against a backdrop of exotic splendour as Englishwoman Laura Hewitt accompanies her cousin and fiance, first to Calcutta and then to the fabled fiefdom of Oliver Erskine, Zemindar - or hereditary ruler - of a private kingdom with its own army. But India is on the verge of the Mutiny, which will sweep them all up in its turbulence. Not one of them - not even the Zemindar himself - will remain unchanged by this violent rebellion against the Raj.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Originally published: Bodley Head, 1981.
A magnificent, twisting, turning love story unfolds against a backdrop of exotic splendour as Englishwoman Laura Hewitt accompanies her cousin and fiance, first to Calcutta and then to the fabled fiefdom of Oliver Erskine, Zemindar - or hereditary ruler - of a private kingdom with its own army. But India is on the verge of the Mutiny, which will sweep them all up in its turbulence. Not one of them - not even the Zemindar himself - will remain unchanged by this violent rebellion against the Raj.
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