The Tainted
Format:Paperback
Publisher:HopeRoad Publishing Ltd
Published:30th Apr '20
Should be back in stock very soon
June 2020 Ireland, the official launch of the centenary of the Connaught Rangers Munity in India. West Cork Literary Festival 2021
Based on a true story of the Irish Connaught Rangers in India 1920, and a story of forbidden love in the Anglo-Indian community.
It’s spring 1920 in the small military town of Nandagiri in south-east India. Colonel Aylmer, commander of the Royal Irish Kildare Rangers, is in charge. A distance away, decently hidden from view, lies the native part of Nandagiri with its heaving bazaar, reeking streets and brothels.
Everyone in Nandagiri knows their place and the part they were born to play – with one exception. The local Anglo-Indians, tainted by their mixed blood, belong . . . nowhere.
When news of the Black and Tans’ atrocities back in Ireland reaches the troops, even their priest cannot cool the men’s hot-headed rage. Politics vie with passion as Private Michael Flaherty pays court to Rose, Mrs Aylmer’s Anglo-Indian maid . . . but mutiny brings heroism and heartbreak in equal measure. Only the arrival of Colonel Aylmer’s grandson Richard, some 60 years later, will set off the reckoning, when those who were parted will be reunited, and those who were lost will be found again.
Cauvery Madhavan's evocative narrative spins together the intriguing lives of her characters over nearly seven decades and makes 'The Tainted' a riveting read. Unfolding largely through conversations among the principal characters is an elegiac tale of the Anglo-Indian community, their heritage and their uncertain future. The intricate details of every experience are captured in simple language and with great precision. A moving story, compellingly told’- Shashi Tharoor
‘Cauvery Madhavan's evocative narrative spins together the intriguing lives of her characters over nearly seven decades and makes 'The Tainted' a riveting read. Unfolding largely through conversations among the principal characters is an elegiac tale of the Anglo-Indian community, their heritage and their uncertain future. The intricate details of every experience are captured in simple language and with great precision. A moving story, compellingly told’Shashi Tharoor
- Runner-up for SAHR Prize for Military Fiction 2020
ISBN: 9781916467187
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 248g
336 pages