Das neighbours: Alis and Misras

In Part III of the novel mother reference is made ‘o All on his borse on the bank of the “Jumna.” When Raja and Bim would slowly trudge back home, they would hear the shouts of a man in khaki uniform:

‘Hato! Hato!’ shouted a man in a khaki uniform and a scarlet turban. and pounded past them OE urgent heels, making way for a white horse that loomed up out of the dune and floated by with a dimmed roar of hoof beats on the sand, followed by a slim golden dog with a happen plum of a tad waving in the purple air. The papas grass bend and parted for this procession and then rustled silkily upright into place again.