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Daphne Manners, who has lost her immediate family in England, comes to India to live with her only remaining family member, Lady Manners. Lady Manners sends her to Mayapore to stay with her Indian friend, Lady Chatterjee.
- Paul Scott
- 1966
Hari becomes romantically involved with Daphne Manners, a young British woman who shows an egalitarian attitude to Indians. One night, after Hari and Daphne make love in the public Bibighar Gardens, a group of Indian men attack them. Hari is beaten and Daphne is gang-raped.
Daphne Manners, a young woman living in London during World War II, describes herself as "galumphing," as if to suggest that she is plain or unattractive. For a time, she works as an ambulance driver during the German Blitz bombing campaign in 1940 and 1941, but a heart condition forces her to abandon such stressful work at her doctor's orders.
Daphne Manners arrives in Mayapore and meets two men who are to change her life: Hari Kumar and Ronald Merrick. The last days of the British Raj in India as the Second World War leads inevitably towards independence.
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Aug 19, 2023 · The inciting incident of much of the story is a relationship between an unconventional young Englishwoman named Daphne Manners (Susan Wooldridge) and Hari Kumar (Art Malik), an Indian journalist raised in England by a wealthy father.
- Lacy Baugher
Mar 12, 2018 · Daphne begins a relationship with Hari Kumar, an upper-class, English-educated Indian who was obliged to return to his homeland following the suicide of his father. When Daphne is gang-raped...
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The central story is that of a young British woman named Daphne Manners who is living in Mayapore, a fictional Indian town. Daphne falls in love with an Indian man named Hari Kumar, who was raised in England but has returned to India after the death of his father.
