The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
By: Pankaj Mishra , J.G. Farrell
3.93
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their…
Want to Read $ 10.99"The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them.."-Pankaj Mishra, The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
"The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them.."-Pankaj Mishra, The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
"And as he dug, he wept. He saw Hari's animated face, and numberless dead men, and the hatred on the faces of the sepoys . . . and it suddenly seemed to him that he could see clearly the basis of all conflict and misery, something mysterious which grows in men at the same time as hair and teeth and brains and which reveals its presence by the utter and atrocious inflexibility of all human habits and beliefs, even including his own."-Pankaj Mishra, The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
"And as he dug, he wept. He saw Hari's animated face, and numberless dead men, and the hatred on the faces of the sepoys . . . and it suddenly seemed to him that he could see clearly the basis of all conflict and misery, something mysterious which grows in men at the same time as hair and teeth and brains and which reveals its presence by the utter and atrocious inflexibility of all human habits and beliefs, even including his own."-Pankaj Mishra, The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
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"And as he dug, he wept. He saw Hari's animated face, and numberless dead men, and the hatred on the faces of the sepoys . . . and it suddenly seemed to him that he could see clearly the basis of all …"-Pankaj Mishra, The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
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