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  2. Charles Allen (writer) - Wikipedia

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    Success as a writer, came in 1974 via his involvement with the BBC Radio 4 oral history series and subsequent book Plain Tales from the Raj. As Allen stated in the preface to the book, "It was my good luck to attend Michael Mason, as chela to his guru, serving my apprenticeship as an oral historian by being sent out with a bulky tape-recorder ...

  3. Plain Tales from the Hills - Wikipedia

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    Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India between November 1886 and June 1887. "The remaining tales are, more or ...

  4. False Dawn (short story) - Wikipedia

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    It was first published in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection. The story is set on an unnamed 'station', or one of the posts where the British lived during the Raj.

  5. Yoked with an Unbeliever - Wikipedia

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    "Yoked with an Unbeliever" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling.It was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on December 7, 1886, and in book form in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888.

  6. The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin - Wikipedia

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    It was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on April 28, 1887, and first in book form in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection. Aurelian McGoggin is a young man fresh out to India. He is much influenced by the ideas of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer.

  7. Spike Milligan - Wikipedia

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    In the 1970s, Charles Allen compiled a series of stories from British people's experiences of life in the British Raj, called Plain Tales from the Raj, and published in 1975. Milligan was the youngest contributor, describing his life in India when it was under British rule. In it he mentions the imperial parades there:

  8. Brendan Fraser Makes Surprise New York Fashion Week ... - AOL

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    Brendan Fraser made a rare appearance at New York Fashion Week in support of his son Holden Fletcher, who made his mark on the Todd Snyder Fall-Winter 2025 runway on Feb. 6.. While many were ...

  9. In the House of Suddhoo - Wikipedia

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    The seal-cutter, who understands the telegraph as Suddhoo cannot, has a friend in Peshawar who sends him the details before letters arrive. Suddhoo is worried at his son's health and invites the narrator to discuss it - specifically the prohibition on jadoo, or magic, by the Raj. The narrator reassures him that white magic is permitted, and ...