{"product_id":"the-tainted-an-indian-irish-love-story-paperback","title":"The Tainted: An Indian-Irish Love Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCauvery Madhavan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescription\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hills of Nandagiri,1920: the Irish Kildare Regiment is part of the vast\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emachinery that holds together the British Empire for the Crown of England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack home in Ireland, the Irish War for Independence is raging and is met\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith a ruthless backlash; the Black and Tans-an English paramilitary force\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eset up to crush Irish dissidents-spread death, indignities and destruction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewherever they go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Nandagiri, Rose Twomey, an Irish-Indian, and Michael, a soldier from\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Kildare Rangers, fall in love, defying the social norms of the time that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edisapproved of such unions. As news of the Black and Tans' atrocities reach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndia, anger brews among the Irish soldiers against the Crown they've sworn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto serve, leading to mutiny, arrests, court-martials and executions. Rose and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael are helpless in the political maelstrom blowing around them that rips\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethrough their lives and dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixty years later, in those very same hills, families torn apart by those\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eturbulent decades are forced to reckon with the horrors of the past, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eheartbreak, loss and alienation, but they may yet, perhaps, finally find healing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a love story spanning an era of Indian and Irish history, The Tainted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edescribes the continued disconnect that many Anglo-Indians live in, unable to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecome to terms with being unwanted in the country they consider 'home' (the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eland of their White fathers), the bitterness they pass down to their children\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand their mutually conflicted relationship with a country they are unsure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhether to call their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 330\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42160779919495,"sku":"9789390477081","price":40.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ce0157c17c8bc48b2420b4dfafc6c48e.webp?v=1733276079","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-tainted-an-indian-irish-love-story-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}