Synopsis
An 'Orientalist' piece of fiction, written tongue in cheek, about the Raj at the height of its power in the late 19th century, with Holmes and Watson appropriating themselves leadership in several fields, whether it is politics, religion, medicine, or even cricket or mathematics. The Great Detective and the intrepid Doctor meet not only captains of empire - such as Lord Ripon, Viceroy Lansdowne, Captain Younghusband and Dr. Ronald Ross - and modem Indian leaders - such as Motilal Nehru and Mohammed Ali Jinnah - but also Kipling's characters, Kim and Mowgli, embedded in everybody's collective literary memory. In passing, they expose the true identity of Jack the Ripper, send Professor Moriarty to an ashram, and foil General Dyer's attempt on Annie Besant's life.
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About the Author
Vithal Rajan, O.C. (BA Hons McGill, PhD London School of Economics) worked for several years as Information Officer for Canadian Industries Ltd. (I.C.I.) in Montreal. A special task assigned to him was developing a program of social consciousness for the company. Following the intensification of the Vietnam War, he involved himself in the peace movement, and served as a mediator in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the early 1970s on behalf of the World Council of Churches and the Pontifical Commission for Justice & Peace. Later, he was a founder faculty member of the School of Peace Studies, Bradford University, U.K. Following the proclamation of a state of internal Emergency in India by Mrs Indira Gandhi, he felt impelled to return to India, and based at Hyderabad, he has worked in an honorary capacity with several civil society organizations, and especially with dalit communities of very poor women. He was founder volunteer chair of the Deccan Development Society, which promoted integrated rural development in the semi-arid poverty-stricken Deccan plateau. He is now volunteer chair, governing body, of the Confederation of Voluntary Associations, which works through community empowerment for communal harmony between poor Hindu and Muslim communities of India. He is voluntary advisory chair of ASP Dalit-Bahujan Cooperatives Federation of A.P., and founder trustee of AME India Foundation which teaches ecological farming to poor farmers. He has set up scholarships at the Ramanujan Institute in Madras University and at Vidyodaya Girls High School in Chennai. He has been Chair of World Studies, International School of Geneva; Director, Ethics and Education, World Wide Fund for Nature International, Switzerland; and Executive Director, the Right Livelihood Award, Sweden (better known as the Alternative Nobel Prize). In 2006, he was made an Officer, of the Order of Canada, its highest national honour, for lifetime achievement and merit of a high degree, in service to Canada and humanity at large. He lives in Hyderabad, India, with his wife, K. Lalita, a well-known feminist and writer.
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