The Boy From Shenkottai

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ISBN 9789354470455|Paperback|272 pages|2021|Speaking Tiger

The Boy From Shenkottai by Stuart Blackburn, based on a true story, is a gripping novel about a young boy carried away by anger against colonial rule.

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The Madras Presidency, 1911. It is 10:35 a.m., the appointed hour. A boy barely into manhood, a British officer for the Crown, and a loaded pistol will create a moment in history, the echoes of which are still faintly heard today.

Vanchinathan, a young boy from a poor Tamil family living in Shenkottai, at the foothills of the western ghats, defies his family and goes far away to attend college. Carried away in the rising tide of anger against colonial rule, he finds himself drawn to one of the militant traditionalist groups opposed to the British Raj. He is recruited, trained to be an assassin and tasked with a secret mission: he must kill Robert Ashe, a British officer who has earned the ire of Vanchi’s mentors by suppressing a riot and jailing its leader. Buffeted by self-doubt and ideological misgivings, Vanchi finds himself on a knife-edge. As Ashe’s luxury train waits at an isolated station, will Vanchi raise his gun and shoot?

Drawing upon a true story, in The Boy From Shenkottai, Stuart Blackburn weaves together history, legend and narratives from South India’s colonial past to deliver a gripping yet nuanced novel.

Author:

Stuart Blackburn

ISBN:

9789354470455

Binding:

Paperback

Pages:

272

Year of Publication:

2021

Publisher:

Speaking Tiger

Edition:

First

Condition:

New

Country of Origin:

India

About the Author

The author first travelled to India in 1970 as a Peace Corps volunteer, received his PhD from Berkeley in 1980, and then taught at SOAS in London for many years. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books on oral tradition, culture and literature, mainly in south India but also in Arunachal Pradesh. His first novel, Murder in Melur, was published in 2014. He lives with his wife in Brighton, England.

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