New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1951. Octavo, 300 pp. Light blue boards. Spine tanned; front cover has a damp spot to fore margin and a bruise to upper outer corner; light yellowing to text paper; rubber stamps to upper margin of front pastedown; small corner crease to early leaves; in all a good, tight jacketless copy. The Indian author's first novel, first published London, 1948, and revised several times later. An important book, said to be the first post-colonial novel of consequence in Indian literature.