Description
The Banyan And Her Roots – No one surveying literature in English of the 21st century could ignore this selection. Not since Rudyard Kipling has here been such a collection of stories about India (and its neighbours) of such quality and insight.
Bevis Hillier
biographer of Sir John Betjeman
About the Author
Jad Adams is a writer and television producer. He is the author of Gandhi: Naked Ambition and Women and the Vote: A World History. He has written biographies of Tony Benn, Emmeline Pankhurst and Rudyard Kipling. He worked on the television series The Dynasty: The Nehru–Gandhi Story and wrote the book which accompanied it. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Research Fellow at the Institute of English, School of Advanced Study, University of London.