Devil's Wind - Hardcover

Manohar Malgonkar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241021766 ISBN 13: 9780241021767

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1972

Synopsis

To the British, Nana Saheb was a monster to fright children with, the bloodthirsty butcher of the "Mutiny" that swept across India in the 1850s before it was courageously suppressed by a handful of troops of the British East India Company. By independent Indians today, Nana Saheb is seen as a hero who stood up against the British villains, and as a forerunner of the leaders who brought freedom less than a century later.

Nana's story, and that whole heroic, gory, frustrating, intrigue-filled chapter of history, are reported here for the first time from the Indian point of view, by a master story-teller. Though told as fiction, none of it is contrary to known fact.

As in THE PRINCES, Malgonkar's earlier novel, scenes of exotic pageantry and of violent action accompany a moving personal love story. Nana's relations with his British friends and enemies, his pleasures and palaces, his position as heir to the leadership of the once-powerful Maratha Confederacy, the ancient Hindu traditions that hedged him about, and the inner struggles of this complicated man, all contribute to a novel that is surprisingly relevant today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
• Publication date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241021766
• ISBN 13: 9780241021767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310