Books set in India

1838: opium fields up the Ganges, and a ship of convicts and migrants leaving Calcutta.

A Polish priest and a rickshaw puller in Anand Nagar, a slum of Calcutta.

1937: Anne-Marie Stretter’s last night of the monsoon at the French embassy in Calcutta.

A French vice-consul in disgrace, an ambassador’s wife, and a beggar woman in Calcutta.

A dolphin scientist and a translator among the islands, tides and tigers of the delta.

1980s: an Australian convict on the run lives in a Bombay slum and joins its mafia.

A man looks for a lost friend through the cheap hotels of Bombay, then Madras and Goa.

1947–1977: a boy born in Bombay at the stroke of India’s independence, and his city.

1969: twins in Ayemenem, a forbidden love and a drowning on the river.