Crimson Spring

The novel follows nine loosely connected people whose lives turn on 13 April 1919, when Brigadier General Dyer's troops fire on a crowd gathered in Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar. Among them are a soldier back from fighting for the British in the Great War, a man eager to see the nephew he has not met for years, a woman who travels to the Harmandir Sahib praying for a son, a pleader who favours the British and a young man drawn to revolution. Their stories reach back into Punjab's villages, the Great War and the Ghadar movement, and on into the aftermath of the shooting and the deliberations of the officials behind it, with Dyer and Michael O'Dwyer among the historical figures.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

India, 1910s

First published

2022 by Aleph Book Company

Author's age

65 when first published

ISBN

9789391047412 (Aleph Book Company, India)