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Kolkata Night Rider [Review]
In 1823, while my colonial forebears greedily filled their coffers at India's expense, my great-great-grandfather, Captain John Luard of the Bengal Lancers, an unquestioning servant of the Raj, wrote in his sketchbook of the pleasure to be gained from travelling to Ganges in vessels known as budgerows.
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