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New Year's Eve, 1856. As Captain Rodney Savage of the 13th Rifles, Bengal Native Infantry, celebrates the start of 1857 with his wife and friends in the isolated cantonment of Bhowani, news comes of a crisis that will have terrifying and widespread repercussions: the Rajah of the neighbouring native state of Kishanpur has been assassinated, and the Rani has had thirty-five of the culprits garrotted. With unrest mounting, the British have no option but to send troops to protect her and her young son. In the following months, as tension erupts into violence and the British begin to wonder whether even their closest servents are trustworthy, Rodney has good cause to remember the quiet comment of Caroline Langford, a visitor from England: 'India is your palace, but you live shut up in little rooms like the Bhowani Cantonment, and the next English room is always away at the other end of the palace somewhere.' Combining the flare of a true story-teller with an intuitive sense of history born of his own deep knowledge and love of India, John Masters re-creates the horror of the Indian Mutiny that was to mark the end of British complacency in the huge sub-continent which they had thought their own. Never again would they feel so secure amid a native population that vastly outnumbered them. The seeds of discontent had been sown, to bear fruit ninety years later in India's painfully won independence.
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The best historical novel about the Indian Mutiny that I have ever read. (John Raymond Sunday Times)
Simply as gripping exotic tales, his books read splendidly still... but they deserve to be read also as a revelation to the young and a reminder to the old of a vanished world. (The Tablet .)
One of the most unjustly neglected writers... magnificent storytelling. (Evening Gazette .)
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Simply as gripping exotic tales, his books read splendidly still... but they deserve to be read also as a revelation to the young and a reminder to the old of a vanished world. (The Tablet .)
One of the most unjustly neglected writers... magnificent storytelling. (Evening Gazette .)
A magnificent novel from the author of Bhowani Junction.
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- PublisherSouvenir Press Ltd
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0285635522
- ISBN 13 9780285635524
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. First published in 1951, The Nightrunners of Bengal is one of John Masters' series of seven novels which followed several generations of the Savage family serving in the British Army in India.Nightrunners of Bengal focuses on the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The central character, Captain Rodney Savage, is an officer in a Bengal Native Infantry regiment, based in the fictional city of Bhowani. When rebellion breaks out, the British community in Bengal is shattered. Savage's empathy for the Indians is shaken, as the British try to discover who is loyal to them and who is not.One of the great novels of India, Nightrunners of Bengal combines John Master's mastery of story-telling with an intuitive sense of history. This was the first novel that Masters wrote in the series, though not the first novel chronologically, and alongside Bhowani Junction is one of his best-known works. Of British extraction, this historical recapitulation of the mutiny in Bengal in 1857 has a certain seriousness and substance not always common to this genre, tempers the imperialism of Victoria's England with the more enlightened outlook of its two main characters, subdues but does not omit the romantic salients. This is the story of Rodney Savage, whose unconditional trust in his natives obscured the early signs of unrest; Joanna, his wife, spoiled and self-interested; and Caroline Langford who had a sympathy for and an awareness of the troubled resentment of the people. With the outbreak of fire and guns, Joanna is bayonetted, and only Rodney, his small son, and Caroline escape to take refuge with the Rani who had once loved Rodney, but who had murdered her husband and sparked off the mutiny. Escaping a second massacre, Rodney and Caroline finally make their way back to the British and in the bloody battle that ensues, the Rani is finally defeated. "The noon of courage and the midnight of barbarism" of an incident which was prophetic of the severance to come, this is based on contemporary reports and letters but forfeits little of the danger and the drama. (Kirkus Reviews) Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780285635524
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