Novel 214: Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham, The Chronicles of Dustypore (1875)

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An English girl goes to live with her guardian in northern India.

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Here is another novel by Cunningham (see Novels 020, 161); set in what is now Pakistan, it expresses a fairly jaded view of British rule.

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“It is not often that a novel-reader comes across a story so bright, so amusing, and so sparkling. . . .  Anglo-Indian life has never been better sketched.” Saturday Review, June 19, 1875

“Contrary to the wont of novels treating of Anglo-Indian life, which are generally to the English reader inexpressibly wearisome, the ‘Chronicles of Dustypore’ are bright, clever, and amusing, and just the kind of thing wherewith to wile away an otherwise tedious hour.” Morning Post, August 30, 1875

A contrasting view:

The author is “a person of pleasant wit, extended reading, and excellent taste, but as soon as the least pressure is put on him to discover the views of so exceptional a witness on the graver questions of English administration in India, the airy creature flies off and vanishes in a spray of tittle-tattle.” Academy, July 3, 1875

Download this week’s novel:

v.1 https://archive.org/details/chroniclesofdust01cunn

v.2 https://archive.org/details/chroniclesofdust02cunn