Opening in May 1948, after the independence of India, the novel is centred around Nainital, a city situated on the second mountain range after the Himalayas. Since it was chosen as a summer capital of the state of U.P. by the British Raj, people there had come into closer contact with it. On its termination, they remembered in various ways, as they had known it. While lawyers Pathak and Sunder, horse-wallah Mazid, all sighed for losing some income and importance ...
