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"I realised I was changing, becoming
more like everyone else. But also I thought that, if one lives here, it is best
to be like everyone else. Perhaps there is even no choice"

The Nawab is shady as hell and Olivia's naivety is pissing me off

"When I first saw him, he seemed to me a typical Indian clerk,
meek and bowed down with many cares. But now I see that he is not meek
and bowed at all – or only outwardly – that really inside himself he is alive
and yearning for all sorts of things beyond his reach. It shows mainly in his
eyes, which are beautiful – full of melancholy and liquid with longing."

“Yes you like rough people who fight well and are mostly on a horse. Best
of all you like the horse. But I think you don’t like others so much?”
“What others?” Olivia asked, laughing.
“For instance,” he said, also laughing, “myself.”

The lore of this book and it's author made me HAVE to read this

Its not believable that none of the British officers know about Olivia’s visits to khatm despite having so many spies! Also no discussion about any feelings of guilt that she doesn’t tell about her visits to her husband. That is totally unrealistic.