... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD I... ... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE,... ...ictional. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No pa... ...l. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of t... ...f slavery, child marriage, female infanticide and the practice of suttee, as one of the important humanitarian reforms of British rule. v Histor... ...e shown me how to pleasure a man. Don’t be coy, my husband, take me as you would one of them.’ Audrey Blankenhagen 2 She slid down his body to l... ...oking, of burning dung cakes used for fuel Audrey Blankenhagen 34 and the unpleasant odours of human excrement and rotting garbage, their odifero... ... shouting at and shooing away stray cows and pariah dogs, which seemed to roam at will amidst the human throng. A fair-skinned Parsi came on board w... ...e to suffer the ravages of epidemics, floods, earthquakes and famines with little or no personal resources. What horrifies me, too, is the mutilatio...

...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutin...