Publisher's Synopsis
Ex-Chief Minister Mohammed Ali Kasim's detainment by police officers at his home in Ranpur is the first of the wholesale arrests of influential Indians suspected of sympathizing with the Congress Committee's call on the British to quit India. For families such as the Laytons, who have lived and served in India for generations, the social and political realities are both disturbing and tragic. And while they are forced to confront the violent years that lie ahead of them, the shadow of Daphne Manners' death and the inhumane treatment of her young Indian lover, Hari Humar, continues to cast a shadow over Imperial India.
