Alice Perrin's short stories and novels are appropriately designated Anglo-Indian fiction, both because of their content and her background. This term generally applies either to works about the English and Indians of British India or to works by men and women who had lived there, usually as sons, daughters, or wives of English officers, civil servants, or missionaries. Popularized by Rudyard Kipling, Anglo-Indian fiction was most prevalent during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and although E. M. Forster and George Orwell are sometimes labeled Anglo-Indian, most writers associated with the subgenre are much less well known. Often grouped with Perrin are other approximate contemporaries of Kipling, including Flora Annie Steel, Maud Diver, B. M. Croker, F. E. F. Penny, and E. W. Savi. During their heyday Anglo-Indian writers were extremely popular because they offered readers a look at the previously unknown place referred to as "the...