The Imitation Englishmen – Devki Pande (Hardcover)

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It is 1916, and the First World War is raging. Madhusudan Chandra Joshi, a young clerk at the District Courts of India, travels to Heidelberg to study law. There he meets Amir Farooqui, a revolutionary, and is drawn into the Hindu–German Conspiracy, a plot by Indian exiles to smuggle guns and win India’s freedom.

As Indian regiments of the British Army go to war against Germany, Madhusudan moves to London to continue his studies, while Amir heads to San Francisco to find fellow revolutionaries — and Madhusudan finds himself confronting colonialism and racism at the heart of the empire. A debut historical novel by Devki Pande.