The Young Rajah, by W.H.G. Kingston.
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The time is just before the Indian Mutiny. A young man returns to India
in search of important papers of his father's. He arrives within the
territory of the Rajah with whom his father had been associated.
Various unrests and disturbances occur, during which it turns out that
the young man is in fact the grandson of the ruling Rajah, and his heir.
This is not very agreeable to the young man, as he does not like to be
venerated.
There is a lot of good action in the book, and it would have been an
easy read for the nineteenth century teenager.
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