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Historical person
1869–1948
Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer and political leader who developed mass nonviolent resistance as a central strategy against British rule. His campaigns included non-cooperation, the Salt March and efforts to reduce communal violence, and he was assassinated in 1948 shortly after Indian independence and partition.
Pearl S. Buck’s Come, My Beloved is set in the 1890s, American millionaire David MacArd responds to the poverty he sees in Bombay by founding a seminary to train Christian missionaries.
Series
Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet follows interconnected British and Indian lives during the final years of colonial rule, from the political crisis of 1942 to independence and Partition in 1947. The four novels—The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence and A Division…
All books in this series
Standalone books
Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
