Twenty-one Days in India
by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
About this book
Twenty-one satirical stories of people in the British Raj. The tales were first published in Vanity Fair and then collected by the author with the subtitle "The Tour of Sir Ali Baba, K.C.B. This recording is based on the third edition, which was published after the author's death from tetanus in Indore. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle
Chapters (21)
1 No. I.—The Viceroy
2 No. II.—The A.-D.-C.-in-Waiting, an Arrangement in Scarlet and Gold
3 No. III.—The Commander-in-Chief
4 No. IV.—The Archdeacon, a Man of both Worlds
5 No. V.—The Secretary to Government
6 No. VI.—H.E. the Bengali Baboo
7 No. VII.— The Raja
8 No. VIII.—The Political Agent, a Man in Buckram
9 No. IX.—The Collector
10 No. X.—Baby in Partibus
11 No. XI.—The Red Chuprassie; or, The Corrupt Lictor
12 No. XII.—The Planter; a Farmer Prince
13 No. XIII.—The Eurasian; a Study in Chiaro-oscuro
14 No. XIV.—The Villager
15 No. XV.—The Old Colonel
16 No. XVI.—The Civil Surgeon
17 No. XVII.—The Shikarry
18 No. XVIII.—The Grass-Widow in Nephelococcygia
19 No. XIX.—The Travelling M.P., the British Lion Rampant
20 No. XX.—Mem-Sahib
21 No. XXI.—Ali Baba Alone; the Last Day
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