Wow... talk about something I am totally clueless about!
Obviously, the backdrop is something to do with the Independence movement. All the main characters are Indian or Anglo-Indian -- the Bristows and Derevkos and Sloane -- and the larger plot movement is to do with loyalty/disloyalty to the Empire, and the question of who is trustworthy and who is a double agent. I think Irina is Anglo-Indian -- mostly I say this so that she, Sydney and Nadia can all wear both Indian and European clothes. Jack and Arvin are civil servants.
And I just got distracted by the thought of Irina and Sydney working a room in 1930s European clothes, and have become entirely distracted from any plot there might have been. Help!
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Date: 2008-03-28 07:40 pm (UTC)Obviously, the backdrop is something to do with the Independence movement. All the main characters are Indian or Anglo-Indian -- the Bristows and Derevkos and Sloane -- and the larger plot movement is to do with loyalty/disloyalty to the Empire, and the question of who is trustworthy and who is a double agent. I think Irina is Anglo-Indian -- mostly I say this so that she, Sydney and Nadia can all wear both Indian and European clothes. Jack and Arvin are civil servants.
And I just got distracted by the thought of Irina and Sydney working a room in 1930s European clothes, and have become entirely distracted from any plot there might have been. Help!