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The great Indian novel

by Shashi Tharoor

This novel reimagines the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata through the lens of 20th-century Indian politics. It chronicles the nation's struggle for independence by parallelising historical figures and events with mythological characters.

Accession 21359 ISBN 0330334905 Publisher Picador
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