. . . . . "Fiction" . "Fiction"@en . . . . "History"@en . "History" . . . . . . . . . . . "Historical fiction" . . "Historical fiction"@en . . . "Love stories" . "Love stories"@en . "The pearls of Coromandel"@en . . . "In India, after a Hindu woman is raped by a Muslim, she is repudiated by her husband. An idealistic English colonial administrator, David Sugden, takes her in and the two fall in love. This arouses the ire of both British and Indians, the woman's father accusing Sugden of organizing the rape in order to obtain her, whereupon the British put him on trial." . "The pearls of Coromandel" . "The pearls of coromandel"@en . "1900 - 1999" . . "India" . . "1765 - 1947" . .