Out of my weakness and my melancholy

[elfs]

So, I have three more stories that I'm preparing for publication, and I've noticed something that my fans have also noticed: most of the stories are heavily tinged with melancholy these days. I don't mean to do that. I should write more upbeat and playful stuff, like in the old days, neh?

As a complete side note, where would I go to read about the day-to-day lives of English roustabouts and wastrels of the very early 20th century wandering around southeastern India?

Horus and Osiris, I have so much to write!

Comments

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

Apart from Kipling, I have no idea. You do know about Hobson-Jobson? The trouble is that the sources I know of are focused on the North-Weat Frontier and Burma, and mostly missing the period you want, which is about when the Great Game was resolved. I suppose you're talking about places like Madras and Bangalore.

You know they have their own traditional martial arts in that part of the world?

[shadowfey.livejournal.com]

Have you considered Churchill's writings on the topic? He was a newspaperman and cavalry officer, in India and in Africa, long before World War II.

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Well, there a couple of Harry Flashman novels set in India :)