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Passages to India.(Review)

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From: The Nation
Date: 20000424
Author:KUMAR, AMITAVA

 
HINDOO HOLIDAY. By J.R. Ackerley. New York Review Books. 302 pp. $12.95. 
THE ROMANTICS. By Pankaj Mishra. Random House. 260 pp. $23.95. 
INDIA: A MOSAIC. Edited by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein. New York 
Review Books. 285 pp. $24.95.

In the early 1920s, E.M. Forster was in India, engaged as the secretary to a royal personage, a minor Maharajah, whom he called "the Prince of Muddlers, even among Indian muddlers." In a manuscript dating to that period, Forster writes about guiltily confessing to his employer--His Highness, or H.H., as he is called in the text--that he ...

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