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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Ind...

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... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ... By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This book ... ...itual murders and primeval sexuality, had long evaded the law, because the loss of a traveller in India could be attributed to a wild animal or some ... ...y wiped out. This was one of the most difficult, but necessary operations undertaken by the EAST INDIA COMPANY and is considered, along with the abo... ...tant humanitarian reforms of British rule. v Historical Note to Reader The Honourable East India Company ‘It is the strangest of all govern... ...of her famous signature and the stamp of the Royal Seal, granted a Charter to the Honourable East India Company. Did that intrepid monarch foresee t... ...on? Could they foresee that that same Company would influence more than 200 years of British and Indian history and found the greatest Empire the wo... ...nd the greatest Empire the world has ever known? Historians have much to say about the British in India, but it is an irrevocable fact that the stor... ... both Great Britain and that vast and glorious sub-continent, the whole of which was once called ‘INDIA’. vii Prologue Eighteenth Century India...

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...every year on thiruvonam days of Chiga masam (August) to confirm his people's well being. This was how ONAM celebration came into practice in Kerala, India....

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...With Clive in India gives a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of the French--Calcutta at the mercy of the Nabob of Bengal--and English influence apparently at the po...

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...Named a prophet of British imperialism by the young George Orwell, and born in Bombay, India, Rudyard Kipling had perhaps the clearest contemporary eye of any who described the British Raj. According to critic Douglas Kerr: He is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary ...

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...890, follows the life of Dick Heldar, a painter. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan or India. It was made into a 1916 film with Jose Collins and a 1939 film by Paramount starring Ronald Colman. It is a tale of of a man who loves his work, friends and boats and starts in Dick’s childhood, then takes you through ...

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...The Stolen White Elephant was written by Mark Twain and published in 1882. In it, an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to the Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to solve the mystery but it all comes to a tragic end. (PLUS more TBD) (Summary...

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...The Man Who Would Be King tells the story of two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. It was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the white Raja of Sarawak in Borneo, and by the travels of American adventurer Josi...

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...Athelstan King is a British Secret Agent stationed in India at the beginning of WWI. He is attached to the Khyber Rifles regiment as a cover, but his real job is to prevent a holy war. To stop a holy war single-handed would be rather like stopping the wind--possibly easy enough,...

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...In this Mark Twain short story an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to solve the mystery but it all comes to a tragic end. (Summary written by Kristen ...

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...Piper's best work, Uller Uprising is modeled after an actual event in human history; in this case the Sepoy Mutiny (a Bengal uprising in British-held India brought about when rumors were spread to native soldiers that cartridges being issued by the British were coated with animal fat. The rebellion quickly spread throughout India and led to the massacre of the British Colo...

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...ep in mind the aims of the organization as well as the composition of the audiences. In fact, since her infancy she is on the move from one part of India to another, even having no idea of the identity of the couple who parented her. Having been reared up by a domestic maid, she was obliged to inherit this type of job to earn for her livelihood. The onset of puberty in t...

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...Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children’s books, including <u>The Jungle Book</u>, <u>Just So Stories</u>, and <u>Puck of Pook’s Hill</u>; his novel, <u>Kim</u>; his poems, including “Mandalay”, “Gunga Din”, and “If—”; a...

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...Kim is a fabulous adventure story set in India during the former British Empire. It tells the story of a street-wise but (in typical Kipling fashion) highly moral Anglo-Indian boy who becomes enmeshed the “the Great Game” -– the competition between Britain and Russi...

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...The Home and the World is a Bengali novel by Rabindranath Tagore, set during India's struggle for independence. It is a story of the beautiful Bimala who is married to Nikhil and who gets attracted to Nikhil's friend Sandip due to his strikingly zealous nature that is in stark contrast to the peace-lo...

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...was a prolific writer of historical fiction for young adults. In this collection of shorter stories we visit Malay pirates, have a couple of tales of India, a shipwreck off the Channel Islands and a bursting dam in California, and finish off escaping from captivity in China (Summary by annise)...

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...The experiences in public school, Sandhurst and military life in India of Major George Cotter together with his adventures in the dream world he discovers and frequents. (Summary by Liam Neely)...

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...n their beds, they all sleep round one warm chimney, like so many Iroquois Indians, in the woods, round their one heap of embers. And just as the Ind... ...h that warm mass of masonry. Better for wines is it than voy- ages to the Indias; my chimney itself a tropic. A chair by my chimney in a November day... ...ate kinsman, Captain Julian Dacres, long a ship-master and merchant in the Indian trade, who, about thirty years ago, and at the ripe age of ninety, d... ...here he still slumbers in a privacy as unmolested as if the billows of the Indian Ocean, instead of the billows of inland verdure, rolled over him. St...

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...owers of Darkness me molest. —Evening Hymn. ONE OF THE FEW advantages that India has over England is a great Knowability. After five years’ service a ... ...hed for craft that had been dam- aged by stress of weather. The weather in India is often sul- try, and since the tale of bricks is always a fixed qua... ...ho had dared tell me the like. T wo months ago I was the happi- est man in India. Today, from Peshawur to the sea, there is no one more wretched. My d... ...ch when I pronounce myself to have been, at that time, the happiest man in India. Fourteen delightful days passed almost before I noticed their flight... ...So-and-So’s horses—anything, in fact, that re- lated to the workaday Anglo-Indian world I knew so well. I even repeated the multiplication-table rapid... ...vity; but you must behave rever- ently toward a ghost, and particularly an Indian one. There are, in this land, ghosts who take the form of fat, cold,... ...ed the entire amphitheatre—a stench fouler than any which my wanderings in Indian villages have introduced me to. 36 The Phantom Rickshaw and Other G... ...ay, I had been told by a wandering Armenian of the existence, somewhere in India, of a place to which such Hindus as had the misfortune to recover fro... ...est sign of curiosity—that curiosity which is so rampant, as a rule, in an Indian village. I could even fancy that they despised me. At all events the...

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...nt face, On ribbons, fans, and gloves, and lace: Showed patterns just from India brought, And gravely asked her what she thought, Whether the red or g... ...ter the Act is passed for the extirpation of the Gospel, the Bank and East India stock may fall at least one per cent. And since that is fifty times m...

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...t a battle in Spain, I have been defeated in Trieste, but my naval army in India will have taken some galleons, and my Mexican pioneers will have disc... ...is just now.” “Can he give me any particulars?” “Important ones; he was in India with Zaccone.” “Do you know his abode?” “It’s somewhere in the Chauss... ...at ten years of age, entered the service of one of the petty sovereigns of India who make war on the English. It was there Wilmore had first met him a... ...late all this aloud, you would have the great- est success.” “He served in India, discovered a mine in Thessaly, and comes to Paris to establish a min... ...nd seemed to have made for herself, as it were, a kind of nest in the rich Indian silks which enveloped her. Near her was the instrument on which she ... ...now not where, and the quantities of letters from England, Holland, Spain, India, China, and Peru, have generally a strange influence on a father’s mi...