M. M. Kaye · 1978 · overland

M. M. Kaye's 1978 epic of British India. Orphaned and raised as a Hindu, Ashton Pelham-Martyn grows up between two worlds, becomes an officer in the British army, and loves an Indian princess he escorts across the subcontinent to her wedding in Rajputana. His path leads north to the disastrous 1879 mission to Kabul, through the passes and politics of the Second Afghan War.

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   Punjab

   The northern India where Ashton, orphaned and raised as a Hindu boy, grows up torn between his English blood and the country of his heart, before being sent 'home' to England and back.

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   Rajputana

   The princely desert state to which Ashton escorts the princess Anjuli across India for her wedding - a journey on which their forbidden love takes hold.

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   Kabul

   The Afghan capital where Ashton is caught up in the doomed British Residency of 1879 and the massacre that opens the Second Afghan War, at the far edge of empire.