Malcolm Henry James debut novel, Missykad, or Britannic Raj through the Turnstiles tells the story of Jack David Brewster who was born out of wedlock, to a British planter and a woman labourer of his estate, Missykad  in Wayanand, bordering the Nilgiris. His curious love for a woman, Cleopatra whom he chance to meet in a brothel in Bombay forms the core of the story. Juxtaposing the sensual with the conceptual, the personal with the social and historical and the real with the Imaginary.