Dennis Kincaid (16 October 1905 – 10 June 1937) was a civil servant in
British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...
, a novelist and the writer of ''
chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj: The Grand Rebel'', a widely respected account of the life of the sixteenth century self-made Emperor, and ''British social life in India, 1608-1937'', a classic account of the British in colonial
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
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Dennis Charles Alexander Kincaid was born on 16 October 1905, the elder son of
Charles Augustus Kincaid
C.A. Kincaid CVO (1870–1954) co-authored with Dattatray Balwant Parasnis, the ''History of the Maratha People'' in three volumes. He was a high court judge in colonial India and a prolific author. He was educated at Sherborne.
His son, Dennis K ...
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His father was a senior member of the Indian Civil Service, and was also a well-known novelist and historical writer.
His grandfather was Major-General William Kincaid, the Resident of
Bhopal
Bhopal (; ) is the capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and Bhopal division. It is known as the ''City of Lakes'' due to its various natural and artificial lakes. It i ...
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Kincaid studied at
Balliol College, Oxford (1924–1927), then obtained a post with the Indian Civil Service.
He arrived in
Bombay
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in 1928, where he was assigned work with the courts.
He wrote two novels about life in India.
His ''Cactus Land'' (1934) was an unusual story, breaking with the conventions of Indian novels of that period.
Kincaid drowned on 10 June 1937 while swimming in a rough sea.
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His work ''British social life in India, 1608-1937'' was not quite complete at the time of his death, and was completed by his friend David Farrer.][
His treatment of Anglo-Indians in this book has been criticized as being an "over-the-top caricature".][
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1905 births
1937 deaths
Historians of India
Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
Deaths by drowning in India
Accidental deaths in India
20th-century British historians
British people in colonial India