The Towers of Silence - India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel faade of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary, Barbara Batchelor, bears witness to the connections between many human dramas; the love between Daphne Manner and Hari Kumar; the desperate grief an old teacher feels for an India she cannot rescue; and the cruelty of Captain Ronald Merrick.


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 ⚡️Book Title : The Towers of Silence
⚡Book Author : Paul Scott
⚡Page : 399 pages
⚡Published May 22nd 1998 by University of Chicago Press (first published 1971)

The Towers of Silence

India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel faade of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary, Barbara Batchelor, bears witness to the connections between many human dramas; the love between Daphne Manner and Hari Kumar; the desperate grief an old teacher feels for an India she cannot rescue; and the cruelty of Captain Ronald Merrick.