The Man on the Threshold

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"The Man on the Threshold" (original

A new governor, a Scotsman named David Alexander Glencairn (possibly based on John Nicholson^[2], is sent to a certain Muslim city in British India to restore order. He succeeds in that using violent measures, but after few years, mysteriously disappears. The narrator is assigned to find Glencairn. He goes to a certain address where a Muslim ceremony was being held. An old man on the threshold tells the narrator a story of a tyrant who was kidnapped and put to trial: he was judged by a madman and his verdict was death - this is implied to be the fate of Glencairn himself.^[3]

Daniel Balderston argues that the central theme of the short story is the search of justice that transcends religion or power systems set in place by the powerful.^[1]

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