This was indeed a very interesting and rather instructive read for it gave one not just many parallels - of stories & incidents mentioned elsewhere in other chronicles of and about India - but also a fairly good glimpse (a sketch is a good descriptive word for it) into the lives of the English in In

I particularly liked the book for its insight into the lives of Europeans in India, living in the upper provinces (as they were then known). It is a delightful and easy read.

Indian society of 1840s

A very good book to read. Know the Indian society. The first hand conversation the author had with so many. Provides a glimpse of caste system at that time. Do read.

Was astounded to know that a book written before 1857 is still so relevant even today. The writer doesn't judge Indian society but simply narrates what he saw and experience in those decades before 1857 turned the political history of modern history and ended the tenure of the once mighty East India

Enough reasons why he’s not known even after one and a half century later. Ruskin Bond, the man who introduces him is very likely to meet the same fate, though a benign and likeable guy!

There’s no art in them !

I reread The Idiot of Dostoevsky a few days ago. Perhaps his brilliance, sheer brilliance

Love history of Indian subcontinent? This is a great read to understand an Australians perspective of spending his life travelling through India during 1800 century, before dying in Mussoorie. He met several interesting characters and the sketches of people from Raj as well as Indian royals are supe

I bought this book in Mussoorie and I was really eager to start this book. I was hoping it would describe the great Himalayas but it spoke very little with that context and could not satisfy my curiosity to know more about the Himalayas from personal perspective. The book never touched the interiors

A must read for all who want a different perspective of culture and traditions of early 18th century India. The first Australian novelist John Lang gives at times a hilarious account of some famous personalities from Indian history. One also gets to know how lavish were the rich in making their jour

Very descriptive novel about the Raj, specially informative about life in Hill stations of the Raj and the mofussil towns of India like meerut, Agra, Bareilly etc. John Lang was discovered by Ruskin Bond and died in 1864 in Mussoorie. The book with its quaint spellings of Indian towns and people and