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Issue Details: First known date: 1896... 1896 The Baba Log : A Tale of Child Life in India
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A story of colonial life in India, centred on the characters of Fay and her brother Don.

Notes

  • Author's note: Having been honoured by two Cuttack children with an invitation to their 1895 Children's Fancy Dress Ball, I wrote an account of the Tamasha in The Englishman as if I were a child guest; and the idea, original as far as I was concerned, "caught on" to such an extent, that I ventured to write a simple book for children, woven around the real life of our English Baba Log in India, and dedicated to my own in Aston Rowant, Oxon.
    The Padri Sahib, Nowon, Central India, October 1896.

  • AustLit note: Baba Log is an affectionate term once used in India for the children of Anglo-Indian families. Post-independence the term took on a more derisive meaning and was applied to middle-class Indian politicians.
  • Miller and Macartney incorrectly cite the title as The Babu Log : A Tale of Child Life in India.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       David Nutt ,       1896 .
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      Link: 8507071Full text document AustLit Full Text
      Extent: [iv], 109p., [13] leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus., ports
      Reprinted: 1897
      Note/s:
      • Includes ten numbered and illustrated pages of end matter advertising the publisher's books for children.
      • Digitised by AustLit, 2009, from the collection of the NLA.
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