Raj quartet V

Merrick recovers from his injuries, but he has to have an artificial arm. He gets a desk posting where he can use his police training to investigate Indian Prisoners of War who were captured in Burma and who were persuaded by their captors to renounce their allegiance to the British empire and join the Japanese. He has a natural taste for bullying and questioning. Meanwhile Hari has been questioned by the British, as he is detained indefinitely under a wartime Security act. He tells them that he was sexually assaulted by Merrick. Horrified, they cover this up but it takes time before Hari is finally released. He is alienated now from the British and his fellow Indians and expects to lead a lonely life, with the loss of Daphne and his child being reared by Lady Manners. Ronald spends some time in hospital having treatment, and there he meets a British OR soldier called "Sophie" Dixon, a gay man who likes joking and camping, but is a kindly nurse to the soldiers in hospital. He likes Merrick at first, but finds out that he ill treated a young homosexual soldier, who has just been coming to terms with his sexuality.