The Passage to India

Name: The Passage to India
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by Allan Mallinson Book 13 in the Matthew Hervey series.

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1831. Hervey is ordered to restore order during the Bristol riots, one of the most destructive confrontations surrounding the Reform Bill crisis. His conduct leaves him politically exposed when the government and army dispute how force should be used against civilians.

A new opportunity takes the 6th Light Dragoons to the Madras establishment and the princely state of Coorg, where resistance to East India Company demands is moving towards war. Hervey must adapt cavalry command to mountain terrain, contested intelligence and an unstable court, while a figure from his past complicates a campaign whose political purpose is far from straightforward.