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tachment is a rare example of descriptive writing at its most attentive [A] gripping and authentic picture of a totally foreign world. It is a book that should be read by anyone with the slightest interest in India and for that matter by anyone who cares about a truthful prose style.The Washington Post In the 1970s, Sarah Lloyd, a landscape architect from England, was at a railway station in Calcutta when she met Pritam Singhnicknamed Jungli by his mothera Nihang Sikh with a powerful face that instantly compelled her. Soon after, Sarah travelled to Amarkot, Junglis village near Amritsar, and started living with him and his extended familyhis stepfather, Pitaji; his mother, Mataji; Balwant, Junglis brother, who came and went; and his unhappily married sister, Rajinder. As she observedand battledthe routines of an alien life, and tried to fit some of the moulds set out for her, Sarah came to understand Jungli betterhis generosity of spirit, his idealism, his beliefs, and his unquestioning love for hereven as she realized her own ambivalence about him. She also learnt to deal with his temper, his bouts of despair, and his addiction to opium. After Mataji threw Jungli out, the couple moved to Chandinagar in UP, where Jungli worked at a Sikh dera. There they lived in a one-room hut, cheek by jowl with families even poorer than them, each one dependent on Santji, the dictatorial saint who ran the dera. And it was there that she inevitably, finally ended their relationship. An account of an unlikely love, and a rare and unusual portrait of rural India, An Indian Attachment is a compelling read: forthright, spare andin its psychologically complex examination of desire and disillusionmenttimeless.

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