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Bold line: ‘Let the storms of the Great Bengal Mutiny roar where they would over the land. He had fought himself, and found himself. He had fought his enemies, who were his friends, and won—and lost.’
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. Little does he realize that in spite of his empathy with the sepoys, fear and resentment are driving them to intrigue with local rulers and other conspirators against the rule of the British East India Company. In the following months, tension erupts into violence and the British begin to wonder whether even their closest servants are trustworthy. Though most of the British officers of the Bhowani garrison and their families—including Savage`s own wife—are killed in the outbreak, Savage escapes the massacre along with his infant son and Caroline Langford, a visitor from England, to head out on an adventure that is going to change his life, and his perspective of India, forever.
Combining the flare of a true storyteller with an intuitive sense of history born of his deep knowledge and love of India, John Masters recreates the horror of the Great Revolt of 1857. First published in 1951, only four years after the end of the Raj, and a prequel to Bhowani Junction, Nightrunners of Bengal remains as graphic, intense and gripping a tale as any modern novel of suspense.
ISBN - 9780143064336
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Pages : 384
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