White Elephant by Jeyamohan - ISBN: 9781529453379
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Famine, murder, and an empire’s bloody toll ignite India’s first labor uprising.
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    336 pages

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Summary

“Jeyamohan is one of India’s most resourceful makers of literary art” PANKAJ MISHRA

“Our understanding of contemporary India is incomplete without reading Jeyamohan” VIVEK SHANBHAG, author of *Ghachar Ghochar*

The year is 1878 and the south of India is in the grip of a devastating famine.

Aiden Byrne, an Irish police officer and loyal servant to the Crown, encounters two laborers being brutally whipped by the roadside. Their tormentor …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529453379
ISBN-10:1529453372
Author:Jeyamohan, Priyamvada Ramkumar
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:MacLehose Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:27 October 2026
Dimensions:216mm x 135mm
About The Author

Jeyamohan

Jeyamohan is a Tamil writer and literary critic based in Nagercoil, India. One of India’s finest authors writing today, his work examines and reinterprets India’s rich literary and classical traditions. A prolific writer, his output includes multiple novels, short stories, volumes of literary criticism, writer biographies, introductory texts to Indian and Western literature, books on philosophy, and numerous other translations and collections.

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