The Double Tongue by William Golding the 'white Mughals' who wore

the 'white Mughals' who wore local dress and adopted Indian ways were a source of embarrassment to successive colonial administrations

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The Double Tongue by William Golding the 'white Mughals' who woreDid I believe in what I was doing? Or rather, since I was doing nothing, did I believe in what someone, something was doing to me? It begins with the half burnt fish, miraculously restored to life, and the healing of the ill child. Young Arieka is an unloved misfit, but as rumours of her spiritual powers reach the High Priest of Apollo, her life is transformed. She is taken to Delphi to become a Pythia: a mouthpiece for the god Apollo, an oracle