‘Mrs Merrydale went off with Lieutenant Maxwell, leaving her youngsters beneath the care of the servants, till her husband got here to take them away. Mrs Hastings, who used to bore us in regards to the duties of a spouse, carried off that foolish boy Stammersleigh. These elopements led to 2 actions in H.M. Supreme Courtroom of Calcutta...’ Born in Australia in 1816, John Lang—novelist, newspaper editor and barrister, now greatest recognized for having defended the Rani of Jhansi in court docket towards the British East India Firm—spent a big a part of his life in India, and died in Mussoorie in 1864. A eager traveller and observer of human nature, Lang was additionally a raconteur par excellence. The Himalaya Membership and Different Entertainments from the Raj brings collectively a choice of Lang’s sketches of life in nineteenth-century British India—the scandals of the summer time season in Mussoorie; a farcical court-martial performed within the sweltering Indian summer time; the curious case of an inebriated valet occupying Lord Jamleigh’s mattress in Bijnore; sundry diversions in Kussowlie and Simlah; and a hilarious account of Lang’s drunken travels within the interiors of Kumaon with a celebration of Europeans. Writing with a storyteller’s aptitude, extraordinary consideration to element, and with a waspish sense of humour, John Lang brings to life the early years of the British Raj as few different writers have.
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