Dennis Kincaid (16 October 1905 – 10 June 1937) was a civil servant in British India, a novelist and the writer of Shivaji: The Grand Rebel, a widely respected account of the life of the sixteenth century self-made Emperor, and British social life in India, 1608-1937, a classic account of the British in colonial India.
His father was a senior member of the Indian Civil Service, and was also a well-known novelist and historical writer.
His grandfather was Major-General William Kincaid, the Resident of Bhopal.
Kincaid studied at Balliol College, Oxford (1924–1927), then obtained a post with the Indian Civil Service.
His Cactus Land (1934) was an unusual story, breaking with the conventions of Indian novels of that period.