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Publisher: Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd. |
| Author Vaishnavi Patel | |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 300 | |
| Cover: PAPERBACK | |
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8.5x5.5 Inch |
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Weight 250 gm |
| Edition: 2025 | |
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HBS439 |
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Ten
Incarnations of Rebellion is an alternate history, imagining an independence
movement that might have been had the British Empire's freedom-suppressing
tactics been more successfully em-ployed in India. The book departs from
history in the 1910s, and many of our timeline's foremost Indian freedom
fighters are mur-dered in the next decades. The novel takes place in a
still-colonized 1960s version of Mumbai, rife with militarized restrictions and
cultural repression, that has been renamed Kingston and bears only a passing
resemblance to the city of today. The events of this book are not history; for
those interested in exploring India's freedom movement, I have included a list
of further reading at the end of this book.
Kalki
Divekar grows up a daughter of Kingston-a city the British built on the ashes
of Bombay. The older generation, including her father, have been lost to the
brutal hunt for rebels. Young men are drafted to fight wars they will never
return from. And the people of her city are more interested in fighting one
another than facing their true oppressors. When tragedy strikes close to home,
Kalki begins to play a dangerous game with small acts of resistance, tempered
by cautious, level-headed Yashu and fortified by Fauzia, whose dreams of the
future awaken Kalki's heart. Together, they found Kingston's new independence
movement, working for the British while secretly planning to destroy the empire
from the inside out. But one wrong move means certain death, and when facing
threats from all quarters, Kalki must decide whether it's more important to be
a hero or to survive. Set over the course of a decade and told through ten
moments from Kalki's life that mirror the Dashavatara, the ten avatars of
Vishnu, Ten Incarnations of Rebellion is a sweeping, deeply felt novel of
empowerment, friendship, self-determination, and the true meaning of freedom. 'A
fascinating, innovative, and suspenseful alternate history of India's freedom
struggle... Readers will fall in love-as I did with the heroine, Kalki, who is
at once intelligent, courageous, and vulnerable'
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