Excerpts from the Book 'Caste':

... he would sit a pensioner of the British. The Mahrattas had been stigmatised by a captious Mogul ruler, mountain rats. As Hindus there was a sharp ...
... himself. For the oval face with its olive skin, as fair as a Kashmiri girl's, was certainly beautiful. The black hair was smoothed back from a wide ...
... to the Bagrees. Ajeet was suspicious, but to refuse permission he knew would anger the Dewan and he was in the Minister's hands. His position was ...
... has been lopped from your body, to hide the features of a decoit that it may not bear witness against the tribe.. You have delayed the ordeal, Sookdee ...
... obedience as Hunsa and the yogi moved toward the village, the patil cried. Where go you.. We go with a message from the gods to you who ...
... the Gulab's hand was still clutched the dagger she had drawn from her girdle and driven home to save the sahib who had sat like a god in her heart. ...
... like flute music, chaffed: What is he like, the one that you love. A swaggering tall black-whiskered Rajput, no doubt, with a purple vest embroidered ...
... in the home of the Sahib. she asked. No, Bootea, not so lucky-nobody but servants.. Then I will go to the bungalow of the Sahib.. Confusion. ...
... hate of an individual Hindu for an Englishman. Now that a message has come will the Sahib go to the Pindari camp. Bootea persisted. Why do you ...
... rainbows-fancy I should wear a strip of red-tape as a tie.. If you will listen, Sir-there is another that I want to put right. Your daughter ...
... All the servants held her in esteem, for she was just, and not niggardly but hers was certainly not a disposition to cause spontaneous affection. Perhaps ...
... the signs and the men will go at once.. You shall have the money, the Dewan declared: but do not delay.. That evening the Bagrees made their ...
... Barlow came. He was rather surprised at the readiness with which he was admitted for an audience with the Chief. It was in the audience hall that he was ...
... of a knife, for I like thee.. Barlow put his hand to his chin. I swear that there was nothing of evil intent against Amir Khan in my heart, he ...
... man in the camp wounds thee his life will pay for it. Till noon thou may have for the going even food for thy start on the way back to the land of ...
... of the British foot soldiers they would meet the same fate. You are right, Chief Kassim, Barlow declared even if you cut in with the winning ...
... from the scorch of sun on the white sands of the desert. And their eyes beneath the black brows were like falcon's, predatory like those of birds ...
... journey in the morning he dreaded the long evening with the girl. He could have sat there with Elizabeth, although their marriage hovered on the horizon, ...
... her resignation was so deep-suggesting an utter giving up, a helplessness. She had named sacrifice the word rang ominously in his mind, beating ...
... for the good of the woman whose face is in thy heart. To-day she insures to her soul a place in kattas, the heaven of Siva, the abiding place of Brahm, ...