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One visit to India was enough to inspire writer Lawrence Blochman for a lifetime

Blochman wrote several popular thrillers in the 20th century, with either India as the setting or an Indian as the hero.

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India deeply disappointed writer Frieda Hauswirth but she never gave up writing about it

The American came to India with the hope of furthering ‘tolerance and human understanding’. She left a decade later disillusioned.

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The origins of the first American novel on India and the mysterious man who inspired it

Francis Marion Crawford’s meeting with Alexander Malcolm Jacob in Simla changed his life and produced a literary success.

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Bombay is better than Calcutta: Impressions of a US novelist in early 20th-century India

The witty EW Howe seemed particularly fascinated with Rajasthani landscapes and Bombay’s affluence.

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Who was William Borden, the American who helped take libraries to nearly every corner of Baroda?

Borden’s cataloguing system gave readers across the state – including in towns and villages – access to 10 lakh books.

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