At it’s zenith, just after World War 1, the British controlled the oceans and bestrode a quarter of the globe, and, it was famously said of them; ‘the Empire upon which the sun never sets’.

In this volume, we bring together some very talented authors who were born in what was then called British India but who themselves became names whose fame reached and shone across continents. Their pens illuminated characters and narratives and added to the great depth of the world’s literature.