![]() ![]() ![]() The couple's romance, however, faces opposition from all sides. Maya's prospects improve when Christian Pendlebury appears on the scene, new to India's civil service and impervious to local prejudices. The massacre's specter hovers over Olivia's son and daughter: Despite their wealth, both Amos and Maya are shunned in Calcutta, branded as half-castes unacceptable in either British or Indian society. The story of the Raventhornes continues in 1870 with Olivia, in a laudanum haze, mourning the memory of her beloved Jai, a Eurasian revolutionary hanged 13 years earlier for his participation in the Bibighar massacre, a savage attack on hundreds of British women and children. Ryman's sequel to Olivia and Jai (1990)a tale of lust, racism, and honor in the British Rajhas noble intentions but lacks the subtlety and restraint to realize them. ![]()
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