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Curry And Rice is not, as the title suggests, a cookbook. It is a hilarious peep into life in a fictional mofussil of Bengal Province. It is a very credible caricature of the social life of a motley bunch of firangees including judges & magistrates, colonels, missionaries, padre, doctor and their colourful spouses and families. The book is a hugely entertaining account of their routines. In attempting to set up home away from home, these men and women gave a whole new meaning to their typical social customs like tea and dinner parties, theatricals, ball room dancing, match making exercises, pig sticking and hunting events, band music, albeit in nineteenth century British India. Their attempt to recreate the English way of life, especially social life aided by delightful presence of the Indian native as the nuwab, cloth merchant, gardner, orderly, cook et al really adds to this anecdotal tale about the goings-on in "Our Station"
ISBN - 9788171675739
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Pages : 206
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