Doctor Margaret's Sea Chest (The Azadi)

"Doctor Margaret's Sea Chest" is Book I of a trilogy covering India's struggle for freedom from the British Raj.

 

American Doctor Margaret's sea chest is discovered in a hospital in Delhi. The coffer contains her diaries and other artefacts.
 

Margaret, despite facing tremendous obstacles, is one of the first American women doctors to graduate in 1850. She marries her Canadian cousin. They travel to serve in the 1854 Crimean war. There they have to not only face hardships of battles, but also endure other conflicts.
 

The surprise ending of Book I, leaves Margaret in a quandary on whether to seek revenge or to continue on with her journey to India.

Waheed Rabbani was born in India, close to Delhi, and was introduced to Victorian and other English novels, at a very young age, in his father's library. Most of the large number of volumes had been purchased by his father at 'garage sales' held, by departing British civil service officers, in the last days of the Raj.
 

Waheed attended St. Patrick's High School in Karachi, Pakistan. He graduated from Loughborough University, Leicestershire, England, and received a Master's degree from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. While an engineer by profession, Waheed's other love is reading and writing English literature, which led him to obtain a Certificate in Creative Writing from McMaster University and start on his fiction writing journey.
 

Waheed's first historical fiction novel, The Azadi Trilogy, Book I: Doctor Margaret's Sea Chest, was published, by Youwriteon-Legend Press, UK. It is available at all McNally Robinson, Chapters/Indigo Amazon, B&N and other on-line Bookstores. E-book and Audio-books are also available on Amazon, iBooks, other on-line stores and Audible.com.
 

Excerpt of Waheed's Book I and Book II opening chapters are also published in the Anthologies, "Canadian Voices II," and "Indian Voices."