Indian | Indian Ocean | Indian National Congress | Indian Air Force | Indian Army | Indian Navy | French and Indian War | British Indian Army | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | Indian Railways | Indian Territory | Indian people | West Indian | Indian cuisine | botanical garden | Anglo-Indian | Indian Rebellion of 1857 | Bureau of Indian Affairs | Order of the Indian Empire | Indian Institute of Science | Indian independence movement | New York Botanical Garden | Kew Gardens | Indian Wells | Indian subcontinent | Indian classical music | Indian Premier League | Indian Institutes of Technology | Indian Institute of Technology Madras | Indian Idol |
The novel is set in Calcutta, India and features many of the city's tourist attractions such as the Indian Botanical Gardens, including The Great Banyan tree and the Kalighat Kali Temple.
He made rapid progress and acquired a good reputation and was in a short time invited by the government of Bengal, to take charge of the Calcutta Botanical gardens from Colonel Robert Kyd.