Tag: Abir Mukherjee
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Non-cooperation, revenge and WMDs in 1920s Calcutta (Book Review)
By Vikas Datta, Title: Smoke And Ashes; Author: Abir Mukherjee; Publisher: Harvill Secker/Penguin Random House; Pages: 352; Price: Rs 599 Its foundations already shaken by Jallianwala Bagh, the British Raj now faces a new type of freedom struggle — one utilising the country’s teeming millions as willing “martyrs” to put pressure on the rulers while…