Massey Sahib

In a small tribal district town of Central India in 1929 Francis Massey is the English Type Babu at the Deputy Commissioners office Massey believes that because he is Christian and can speak English he is a cut above other Indians and not very different from the white sahibs he serves For a man of lowly birth Massey has risen to a dizzying height On the other hand he acknowledges no realistic limits to his own free spirit Whenever the real world fails him he improvises boldly imaginatively Alas the unsmiling implacable machinery of the Raj has no room for Massey Sahib the travelling salesman road foreman and entertainer Right up to the bitter end Massey believes that Deputy Commissioner Adam Sahib will step in and save him