num_pages: 399
description: India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel façade 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.
language: English
title: The Towers of Silence
titlecomplete: The Towers of Silence (The Raj Quartet, #3)
characters: Arthur Grace, Ahmed Kasim, Barbie Batchelor, Sarah Layton, Mabel Layton, Count Bronowsky, Mildred Layton, Fenella Grace, Ronald Merrick, Mohammed Ali Kasim, Kevin Coley, Susan Layton
genres: British Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, India, Historical, Classics, Novels, Fiction, Literature, 20th Century
ratings_count: 1385
places: India
series: The Raj Quartet
publisher: University of Chicago Press