The Last Victory - Hardcover

Murari, Timeri N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0450424936 ISBN 13: 9780450424939

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1988

Synopsis

The adventures of Kim, Rudyard Kipling's fictional character, are continued with conflicts of the Raj versus the Indian Nationalists, betrayal and nightmare, demons who kill and spirits who heal set against the backgound of historical figures, politics and the events of 1919 in Amritsar. T.N. Murari has also written "The Imperial Agent", " Taj", "The Shooter", " Lovers are not People", "Field of Honour".

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From Publishers Weekly

Following The Imperial Agent , Murari here concludes his dramatically imagined sequel to Kipling's Kim , disclosing the tragic human cost of the Raj during its closing years. He deftly makes the earlier tale readily accessible to those unacquainted with Kim, introducing its many characters and adding such later figures as Nehru and Gandhi. Opening in northern India in 1910 and ending with the infamous massacre by Gen. Dyer's troops at Amritsar in 1919, the novel follows Kim's adventures after his traumatic discovery that Col. Creighton, who had adopted him when he was abandoned as a child, has been cynically using him as an instrument of colonial rule. Despite his British parentage, Kim conceives of himself as a true son of India, and escapes Creighton with the beautiful Parvati, who is fleeing her husband and demonically jealous mother-in-law Gitabhai. While the periodic intervention of Hindu deities on Kim's behalf works well enough, Gitabhai's malevolent sorcery edges this otherwise engaging historical novel into crudely misogynistic melodrama. Nonetheless, the narrative succeeds in portraying the emotional complexity of deeply entangled British-Indian relationships.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0450424936
• ISBN 13: 9780450424939
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1