In the seventeenth-century Deccan, the Maratha leader Shivaji is building his power against the Muslim kingdom of Bijapur. Taylor, who spent decades in Indian service, weaves the fate of Tara, a young Brahmin woman, into the court life, temples, armies and rivalries of a land on the brink of upheaval.
From the author of Confessions of a Thug, an Anglo-Indian novel rich in history and local knowledge. Download the free EPUB.