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[John Feltham]

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Better to wait until the page has loaded altogether then go to the  
bottom and download the PDF file that you will find in the last line.

235 pages.

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The King's Gora-Wallahs  by Don MacNaughton

This book is dedicated to: All British soldiers who,
In the 1920's and1930's Trooped east by sea for
service in the 'shiny'. Men known to the Indian native
population as 'Gora-Wallahs'.

This is a story of a British India, set in the years soon after the
First World War. It tells of people who have lived most of their
lives there and of others who are making the journey by sea for
the first time to take up residence - temporary or otherwise:
Emma Schofield, a doctor involved in running a mission hospital
on the North-West Frontier; Robert Christie, a man born in India
and now returning from the war in France to begin an appointment
with the Indian Civil Service; Rose Rickman, a teenage girl who
will find in India high drama marked with cruelties, but also the
earnest love of a young soldier.

However, above all else this is a story about the army in India
as experienced by a British battalion posted for service 'east
of Suez'.  For them it was to be an adventure in the twilight of
the Empire. Not that they were to know this at the time, for service
in India had many drawbacks: months of suffering intolerable
heat, boredom, long marches, poor food and surviving death's
lottery that claimed their mates' lives through disease, extremes
of climate and attacks by bullet and blade from ruthless Pathan
tribesmen. Only long after with the India of the British Raj a distant
memory, would eyes, overhung with grey bushy eyebrows, close,
and with a sigh, the head bowed, remember: India.! India.! India.!

http://donmacnaughton.com/goracomplete.html

--- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar


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