Most of the stories written by Canadian businessman and politican William Alexander Fraser are imitations of the Boy"s Own style popular in Britain before World War I. Caste is a remarkable exception, a densely populated, closely plotted adventure of attempted mutiny and covert response in India under British rule. Altogether sympathetic to imperial concerns, it nonetheless shows Indian subjects with a wide range of motives and outlooks, and hands its British hero something more complicated than pure success on all fronts. Villains perish, but not all the virtuous agree on what they deserve or should want.