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Title:
The patient assassin : a true tale of massacre, revenge, and India's quest for independence
Author:
Anand, Anita, author.
Publication Date:
2019
ISBN:
9781501195709
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Description:
x, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Part one -- The drop -- The good son -- Birth of the upheaval -- Rises and falls -- Name, rank, and serial failure -- Black acts, red lines -- Elephants and twigs -- Rex -- No warning, no way out -- The legend of Udham Singh -- Part two -- I repent, I repent, I repent -- Traumas and truths -- The untouchables -- London limbo -- American dreamers -- Patriots -- The suffering of simple boys -- Losing God -- Curious case -- Shadows -- Reckonings -- Mohammed Singh Azad -- Name in vain -- Trial and tribulation -- Letters, books, cars, and codes -- The return.
Abstract:
Describes Udham Singh's journey to fulfill his vow of revenge against the men responsible for the 1919 British massacre in India.
Added Title:
A true tale of massacre, revenge, and India's quest for independence