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The Patient Assassin

By Anita Anand

A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence. Scribner, 2019.

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The Patient Assassin

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The powerful real–life story of a man who escaped the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, and the twenty–year plot for vengeance that turned him from a nameless survivor into a fearless legend.

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Who should read The Patient Assassin

Historians • war crime aficionados • political activists • students of British or Indian history • anyone interested in British–Indian relations

About the author of The Patient Assassin

Anita Anand is a British journalist and BBC reporter. She regularly hosts radio and television programs, and in 2005 was the recipient of the Nazia Hassan Award for Upcoming Television Broadcasters. Her non–fiction text, The Patient Assassin, won the 2020 Hessell–Tiltman Prize.

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