The Black Hill

The East India Company is edging into the hills of what is now Arunachal Pradesh, and the Abor and Mishmee peoples resist the outsiders. One night Gimur, a young Abor woman, meets Kajinsha, a Mishmee man; they elope and make a home on his land close to the Tibetan border. Father Nicolas Krick, a gentle, devout Frenchman, means to reach Tibet by an eastern route and brushes aside warnings about the wild country beyond the Assam plains. Again and again the hill people turn him back, afraid that soldiers will come after the missionaries. Drawing on the real disappearance of a priest in the 1850s, the story moves between the two villages and the priest's own view, as his resolve pulls everyone he meets into its consequences.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

India, 1840s–1850s

First published

2014 by Aleph Book Company

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9789382277231 (Aleph Book Company, India)

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