Chokra and Tags

Michael, John

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Publishing history
Macmillan & Co, London, 1958, 202 pp.

Chokra is apprenticed at the Kingsbourne Stables. He takes to it very well, but his guardian, ‘Tags’, has to stay out in India, and Chokra begins to suspect all is not well with him.

Sequel to
Chokra

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Michael

Michael, John

John Michael was the pseudonym of Ernest John D'Oyly Inglis (1899– ?). He wrote a pair of books set in India (possibly in what is now Pakistan –I have not read either book so cannot check). Both feature racing. Meena Khorana in The Indian Subcontinent in Literature for Children and Young People describes his Chokra and Tags as as 'carefully-structured, action-packed story', but finds that despite its Indianised hero, it is 'thoroughly colonial and Eurocentric'. The book sees Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle for freedom for India as a political nuisance.

Finding the books
Chokra isn’t outstandingly common, and pricing does vary. Chokra and Tags is tricky.

Links and sources
Meena Khorana: The Indian Subcontinent in Literature for Children and Young People
The British Library
Thanks to Lisa Catz for the photograph and summary