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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Dennis Kincaid''' (16 October 1905 – 10 June 1937) was a civil servant in [[British India]], a novelist and the author of ''[[Shivaji]]: 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]].<br />
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Dennis Charles Alexander Kincaid was born on 16 October 1905, the elder son of [[Charles Augustus Kincaid]].<br />
His father was a senior member of the Indian Civil Service, and was also a well-known novelist and historical writer.<br />
His grandfather was Major-General William Kincaid, the Resident of [[Bhopal]]. <br />
Kincaid studied at [[Balliol College, Oxford]] (1924–1927), then obtained a post with the Indian Civil Service.<br />
He arrived in [[Bombay]] in 1928, where he was assigned work with the courts.<br />
He wrote two novels about life in Indian. <br />
His ''Cactus Land'' (1934) was an unusual story, breaking with the conventions of Indian novels of that period.<br />
Kincaid drowned on 10 June 1937 while swimming in a rough sea.<ref name=TimesObit/><br />
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.<ref name=Kincaid1938/><br />
His treatment of [[Anglo-Indians]] in this book has been criticized as being an "over-the-top caricature".<ref name=Cassity/><br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
*{{cite book<br />
|title=Durbar<br />
|author=Dennis Kincaid<br />
|publisher=Chatto And Windus<br />
|year=1933}}<br />
*{{cite book<br />
|title=Moonrise on the Indus<br />
|author=Dennis Kincaid<br />
|publisher=Harcourt, Brace and company<br />
|year=1934}}<br />
*{{cite book<br />
|title=Cactus land: a novel<br />
|author=Dennis Kincaid<br />
|publisher=Chatto & Windus<br />
|year=1934}}<br />
*{{cite book<br />
|title=British social life in India, 1608-1937<br />
|url=https://archive.org/details/b29932579<br />
|author=Dennis Kincaid<br />
|publisher=Routledge<br />
|year=1938<br />
|isbn=0-7100-7284-8}}<br />
*Dennis kincaid (1937).THE GRAND REBEL<ref>{{Cite book|title=THE GRAND REBEL|year=1994|isbn=8185395845|last1=Kincaid|first1=Dennis}}</ref><br />
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==Further reading==<br />
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*{{cite book<br />
|title=The Kincaids, two generations of a British family in the Indian civil service<br />
|author=[[Aroon Tikekar]], Aruṇa Ṭikekara<br />
|publisher=Promilla & Co.<br />
|year=1992<br />
|isbn=81-85002-13-4}}<br />
* {{cite encyclopaedia|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Literature in English|editor=Manmohan K. Bhatnagar|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributors|isbn=978-81-7156-955-7|article=Kincaid, Dennis &mdash; The Novelist (1905&ndash;1937)|first=Veeresh Rachappa|last=Badiger|year=2001|pages=1039&ndash;1045}}<br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist|1|refs=<br />
<ref name=Cassity>{{cite web<br />
|url=http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/chowri~1.html<br />
|title=EMERGING FROM SHADOWS: THE "UNHOMED" ANGLO-INDIAN OF 36 CHOWRINGHEE LANE<br />
|author=Kathleen J. Cassity<br />
|access-date=2010-11-23}}</ref><br />
<ref name=Kincaid1938>{{cite book<br />
|title=British social life in India, 1608-1937<br />
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byU-AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR21<br />
|page=xxi<br />
|author=Dennis Kincaid<br />
|publisher=Routledge<br />
|year=1938<br />
|isbn=0-7100-7284-8}}</ref><br />
<ref name=TimesObit>{{cite web<br />
|url=http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/INDIA/2008-01/1200033337<br />
|title=Obituaries: Mr. Dennis Kincaid<br />
|work=The Times<br />
|date=11 June 1937<br />
|access-date=2010-11-23}}</ref><br />
}}<br />
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