{"product_id":"9781529453379-white-elephant","title":"White Elephant","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Irish police officer in British India finds himself caught up in the first labour strike in Indian history, against the backdrop of an apocalyptic famine. A searing inditement of empire by an iconic Tamil writer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Jeyamohan is one of India's most resourceful makers of literary art\" PANKAJ MISHRA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur understanding of contemporary India is incomplete without reading Jeyamohan\" VIVEK SHANBHAG, author of \u003ci\u003eGhachar Ghochar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe year is 1878 and the south of India is in the grip of a devastating famine.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAiden Byrne, an Irish police officer and loyal servant to the Crown, encounters two laborers being brutally whipped by the roadside. Their tormentor is an overseer from the Tudor Ice Company, where mammoth blocks of ice, harvested from frozen New England lakes, are broken down for British banquets by workers from the lowest rung of the caste system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen those same laborers are found murdered, Aiden and Kathavarayan, a charismatic young activist, set out on a journey that brings them face-to-face with the bloody toll of the famine raging through the country. Once so fearless in this heat-blasted land, Aiden will now be forced to grapple with his own precarious role in the machinery of empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA vivid reimagining of the first labor uprising in modern Indian history, White Elephant is a soul-searing novel by one of India's greatest living writers, offering a stirring, indelible argument against the pitiless march and corrupting influence of empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Tamil by Priyamvada Ramkumar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57582346142070,"sku":"9781529453379","price":14.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_40568465_6dfaab26-3b57-445b-810e-b4e3fe813e94.jpg?v=1775079670","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529453379-white-elephant","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}