This collection contains three sets of stories, each exploring a different aspect of social identity in imperial India's British community 'Under the Deodars' is a tragicomic album of vignettes of English women, dramatising their frustrated ambitions and sweet and sour liaisons 'Wee Willie Winkie' mixes fantasy and reality in a picture of the splendours and miseries of Anglo-Indian boyhood 'The Phantom rickshaw' is an exercise in imperial Gothic that includes his masterpiece 'The Man who Would be King'