Information on the characters

Douglas:
- hard-working administrator
- Englishman
- conservative
- feels superior to the Indians
- dislike Indian customs
- like sati
- can speak and likes Urdu
- strict
- intelligent
- “Oxbridge” (means that he has got an education at a school in England
- cannot show emotions
- says what the Nawab has to do

Nawab:
- prince/ruler
- not hard-working; just do the things what a prince has to do
- sentimental when he spend time with Olivia
- emotional
- possessive
- egoistic
- dominant
- Muslim
- against Hindu culture
- educated in India
- inferior to the Englishmen
- dislike the British
- Doesn’t like people leaving him

Harry:
- never has a girlfriend
- does everything what the Nawab says to him

- Just wanted to stay with the Nawab for 6 months (now it were 3 years)

Olivia:
- lonely, feels worthless

- likes to walk across graveyards
- inexperienced
- unprepared for India
- attracted by the Indian Palace
- very young
- has an affair with the Nawab
- gets pregnant and abort the child

the narrator:
- interested in her past in India
- open to other cultures
- tolerant
- open-minded
- likes adventures
- young
- has an affair with Inder Lal
- gets pregnant and wants an abortion at first, but later she decides to get the child