Ruskin Bond was born to a British father (Aubrey Alexander Bond) and an Anglo-Indian (?) mother (Edith Dorothy) at Kasauli Military Hospital, in Himachal Pradesh, India, on May 19,1934. It is instructive to mention at the very outset that I will be working with Ruskin’s own sense of the self rather than any objective truth about his lineage or descent. He is unquestionably aware of his father being British but his dubious notion of Edith’s descent is the reason why I have assigned a question mark to his mother’s genealogical attribute.