India

Vivien Leigh who plays the part of Scarlett O'Hara, was born in Darjeeling, India. Her father was French, her mother Irish.

Elizabeth's Vivien Leigh Page Forever Scarlett O'Hara! Vivian Mary Hartley was born November 5th, 1913 in India....

Rudyard Kipling's Kim (Kimball O'Hara) is the story of the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, who spends his childhood as a vagabond in Lahore. With an old Tibetan lama he travels through India, enthralled by the "roaring whirl" and kaleidoscope of the country's landscape and its cities of richly coloured bazaars and immense diversity of people.

Bibliomania: Kim; Full Text online in 15 Chapters Summary: Kim is Rudyard Kipling’s most enduringly successful serious novel. It was published in 1901 and is the story of the orphaned son of a soldier in the Irish regiment. His full name is Kimball O’Hara... The novel takes place in India, then a British colony, and Kim spends his childhood as a waif in Lahore where he meets a Tibetan ‘lama’ or holy man who is on a quest to find a mystical river.... The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of Indian life, its religions and some of the humbler aspects of a land with a great population and associated problems... a highly successful study of life in India and of a boy who combines both Oriental and Irish and therefore East and West in his nature.

Connell O'Hara (died 1857) served with the the 61st Foot, Gloucestershire Regiment, in India and died during the Indian Mutiny on September 3rd, 1857 (scroll down page or search for O'Hara).

Katherine O'Hara's ‘India Oh India!’ Quote: "An eminently readable opinion about a country and a people, put forth not as an exposé, but as required reading for anyone interested in India or its people. - Written by an American born in India. - Whether you agree with much of it or not, you're sure to laugh, cry, get mad and feel sad. A probing, often funny look by a writer who has for almost two decades lived and worked internationally, and yet continues to feel enormous love for the land of her birth".

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