Travelers. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

      Copyright © 1973 by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

      First Counterpoint paperback edition 1999

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927–

      Travelers.

      First published in England in 1973 under title: A new dominion

      [1. India—Social life and customs—Fiction]

      I. Title.

      PZ7.J573Tr3 [Fic] 72–9765

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      Contents

Part I: Delhi

       Part II: The Holy City

       Part III: Maupur

       part I

       DELHI