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April 09, 2021 13:15 IST
The book is filled with period detail, with the sights, sounds and smells of Shahjahanabad spilling out of every page of this historical thriller
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The book is filled with period detail, with the sights, sounds and smells of Shahjahanabad spilling out of every page of this historical thriller
The year 1857 catches at our collective imagination: the heroic, doomed endeavour, the mix of high and low who joined the fight for freedom, the horrific reprisals.
Murder at the Mushaira begins on the moonlit night of May 2, 1857, with a messenger galloping to Delhi carrying a letter for the rebels, a posse of East India Company soldiers in hot pursuit. It ends in September with the uprising’s defeat and a whole city, its traditions and way of life, systematically dismembered.