In the preface to "The Moonstone", Vishnu commands 3 Brahmins in this country to guard the title gem night & day
Reading Resistance and Freedom in the 19th-century Indian Novel .... feel that 
Jane Eyre, The Moonstone, and Dombey and Son are fairly canonical .... and 
Sikhs in modern-day India, whose roots span the 19th-century at the very least.