The Far Pavilions - Mary Margaret Kaye [660]
*sowars = cavalry soldiers; sepoys = infantry
*big dinner-parties
† bad characters; riff-raff
* uproar, tumult
*The battle that gained India for Clive and the East India Company in 1757. (There was a legend that the rule of the Company would only last a hundred years from that date.)
* Hindu holy man
* tight-fitting three-quarter-length coat
* doctor
* pronounced Ma-darn
*Be silent!
*a Hindu form of blessing, literally ‘Live long’
* cart or carriage
* village headman
*1 koss = 2 miles
*drivers of horse-drawn vehicles
*mail carriage (dâk literally post, mail, posting-house)
*sun-blind made of split cane
*for me too
*thanks be to God
*Princesses
*nonsense (literally, stupidity)
*kaka = paternal uncle
*Highness
*nymphs of the Mohammedan paradise
*part of the Vedic literature
*Your honour
* You have permission to go
* Literally young men: but also used colloquially to mean soldiers.
*my son
* Before India was taken over from the East India Company by the Crown, the title was Governor-General. The last of these was Sir John Lawrence.
* Fear not. Be strong. Bravo!
* Thank you
*Now it is finished
*Here lies Barbur the great Emperor. May his fame live for ever.
* Go back and get your muskets. On! On!
* Forward, brothers. On – Victory to the Guides.
* strike; kill.
* Please. Enough. Stop!
Table of Contents
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
THE FAR PAVILIONS
Book One: The Twig is Bent
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Book Two: Belinda
8
9
10
11
12
Book Three: World out of Time
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
Book Four: Bhithor
27
28
29
30
31
Book Five: Paradise of Fools
32
33
34
35
Book Six: Juli
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
Book Seven: My Brother Jonathan
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
Book Eight: The Land of Cain
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
NOTES FOR THE CURIOUS
GLOSSARY
Footnotes
Book One: The Twig is Bent
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2
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3
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5
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Book Two: Belinda
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12
12
12
Book Three: World out of Time
13
13
14
14
15
15
15
16
16
21
21
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26
26
Book Four: Bhithor
27
27
Book Five: Paradise of Fools
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33
35
35
Book Seven: My Brother Jonathan
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49
55
55
57
57
58
58
Book Eight: The Land of Cain
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61
65
65
66
66
66
68
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