The patient assassin : a true tale of massacre, revenge, and India's quest for independence /
Anand, Anita,
The patient assassin : a true tale of massacre, revenge, and India's quest for independence / Anita Anand. - First Scribner Trade Paperback edition. - x, 374 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one -- The drop -- The good son -- Birth of the upheaval -- Rises and falls -- Name, rank, and serial failure -- Black acts, red lines -- Elephants and twigs -- Rex -- No warning, no way out -- The legend of Udham Singh -- Part two -- I repent, I repent, I repent -- Traumas and truths -- The untouchables -- London limbo -- American dreamers -- Patriots -- The suffering of simple boys -- Losing God -- Curious case -- Shadows -- Reckonings -- Mohammed Singh Azad -- Name in vain -- Trial and tribulation -- Letters, books, cars, and codes -- The return.
Describes Udham Singh's journey to fulfill his vow of revenge against the men responsible for the 1919 British massacre in India.
9781501195716 1501195719
Udham Singh, 1899-1940.
O'Dwyer, Michael, Sir, 1864-1940 --Assassination.
Amritsar Massacre, Amritsar, India, 1919.
The patient assassin : a true tale of massacre, revenge, and India's quest for independence / Anita Anand. - First Scribner Trade Paperback edition. - x, 374 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one -- The drop -- The good son -- Birth of the upheaval -- Rises and falls -- Name, rank, and serial failure -- Black acts, red lines -- Elephants and twigs -- Rex -- No warning, no way out -- The legend of Udham Singh -- Part two -- I repent, I repent, I repent -- Traumas and truths -- The untouchables -- London limbo -- American dreamers -- Patriots -- The suffering of simple boys -- Losing God -- Curious case -- Shadows -- Reckonings -- Mohammed Singh Azad -- Name in vain -- Trial and tribulation -- Letters, books, cars, and codes -- The return.
Describes Udham Singh's journey to fulfill his vow of revenge against the men responsible for the 1919 British massacre in India.
9781501195716 1501195719
Udham Singh, 1899-1940.
O'Dwyer, Michael, Sir, 1864-1940 --Assassination.
Amritsar Massacre, Amritsar, India, 1919.