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Rupa Publications India STRANGE MEN STRANGE PLACES by Ruskin Bond
Strange men they were Soldiers, mercenaries, freebooters Europeans all, braving the heat and dust of India They fought for wealth, for glory, and for sheer fun Their glorious and inglorious exploits are full of thrill, romance, and violence Ruskin Bond has recreated the turbulent and colourful India of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with the soldiers of fortune strutting across the subcontinent The saga of their lives and loves in Delhi, Jaipur, Aligarh, Sardhana, and Lucknow reads stranger than fiction