Book Launch: Crimson Spring a novel by Navtej Sarna
In this masterpiece, Navtej Sarna brings the horror of the atrocity to life by viewing it through the eyes of nine characters—Indians and Britons, ordinary people and powerful officials, the innocent and the guilty, whose lives are changed forever by the events of that fateful day. Set against the epic backdrop of India’s freedom struggle, World War I, and the Ghadar movement, Crimson Spring is not just a powerful, unsettling look at a barbarous act, but also a wider meditation on the costs of colonialism and the sacrifices and heroism of ordinary men and women at a time of great cruelty and injustice. It is a book that will leave no reader unmoved or unchanged.
Date:
28 October 2022, 17:30 (Friday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2022)
Venue:
St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details:
Syndicate Room
Speaker:
Navtej Sarna
Organising department:
Asian Studies Centre
Organiser:
Faisal Devji
Organiser contact email address:
asian@sant.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Clare Salter
