City where the narrator rents a room from Inder Lal. City where Olivia and Douglas had lived together in 1923.
A squat little town that had grown up in the shadow of the Nawab's palace. The Begum arranges for Olivia to visit the midwives in the back alleys of Khatm.
The palace is described as rising like a jewel above ugly Khatm. On it is Baba Firdau's shrine, built by one of the Nawab's ancestors to acknowledge one who had once given him shelter when.....
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