A.E.W. Mason's The Broken Road is the fourth novel in the 'Lesser-known Raj Fiction' series edited by Ralph Crane. A gripping adventure romance of the Frontier first published in 1907, The Broken Road tells of the building of the Road, and, through the relationship between the two main characters, Dick Linforth, scion of a family of Empire-builders, and Shere Ali, the Prince of Chiltistan, compellingly explores the sense of duty that drove successive generations of British men to sacrifice their lives to the goals of Empire, and the contentious issue of educating Indian princes in England. While undoubtedly reinscribing the image of a confident and secure empire characteristic of much Raj fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the novel also offers unusual insights into the human cost-on both sides of the racial divide-of producing that image, making it of significant interest to readers interested in colonial and postcolonial literatures, as well as general readers. This new, critical edition of The Broken Road, which includes a detailed introduction, a chronology of A.E.W.Mason's life, maps, and extensive explanatory notes, makes available a fascinating work of Raj fiction.
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A.E.W. Mason (1865 1948) was a prolific and extremely popular writer whose career spanned six decades. Two of his novels, The Broken Road (1907) and The Drum (1937), are set in India. Ralph Crane Professor and Head of the School of English, Journalism and European Languages, at the University of Tasmania, Australia.
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Mason is the author, for those of you who don't recognize him, of the Four Feathers that made it into the movies a few years back. I picked this up expecting to grit my teeth and bear the racism that one expects from 19th century gentlemen. While this is by no means from the point of view of a native of India, this story of a prince educated in England and then thrown back into a country he regards as barbaric, and the prejudice he finds there ,even from the woman he loves, makes it almost as thought provoking as A Passage to India. The adventure is less important than the ties of blood and prejudice that motivate the main characters.
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This exciting story is set in British India. The action, fighting, secret agents, etc. remind me of an earlier version of a Tom Clancy book. Definitely not pc so only buy this if you don't mind the imperial mindset of the day.
Other books like this are The Drum and The Young Rajah: Adventures in India.
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I have been trying out various free books on my Kindle, and have been reading a lot of Pre-WWII popular fiction just to see what was popular then. I have landed on some clunkers, but this book is very well written, in a style not unlike A. J. Cronin. Definitely worth trying.
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Shere Ali, Violet Oliver, Ahmed Ismail, Captain Phillips, Sir John, Colonel Dewes, Shere All, Sybil Linforth, Futteh Ali Shah, Safdar Khan, Dick Linforth, Wafadar Nazim, Rahat Mian, Hindu Kush, Political Officer, Colonel Sahib, Government House, Prince of Chiltistan, Delhi Gate, Chief Commissioner, Khan of Chiltistan, Abdulla Mahommed, Major Dewes, Colonel Joe, Sussex Downs New!
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Shere Ali, Violet Oliver, Ahmed Ismail, Captain Phillips, Sir John, Colonel Dewes, Shere All, Sybil Linforth, Futteh Ali Shah, Safdar Khan, Dick Linforth, Wafadar Nazim, Rahat Mian, Hindu Kush, Political Officer, Colonel Sahib, Government House, Prince of Chiltistan, Delhi Gate, Chief Commissioner, Khan of Chiltistan, Abdulla Mahommed, Major Dewes, Colonel Joe, Sussex Downs New!
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