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Maud Diver (1867–1945) was a British Indian author who was a friend and contemporary of Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) and who, like Kipling, primarily wrote about Englishmen in India and their encounters with the people and cultures of the East. The Judgment of the Sword is one of two books Diver wrote about Eldred Pottinger (1811–43), an army officer in the East India Company. The other volume, The Hero of Herat, is a popular biography recounting Pottinger’s 1837 involvement in the Persian siege of Herat, and his ...