In this epoch-making novel, the author provides a true
insight into contemporary India, in the backdrop of China-India flareup. He
tells an extremely gripping story of unsurpassed drama, on a broad and
revealing canvas. Bhashkar, an American-trained Chief Engineer in a steel
plant, wants to dispossess Gandhigram, because it is a hindrance to India's
industrialization. He brings every pressure to bear, but to his surprise, the
community of the believers in non-violence stands firm under its great leader,
Satyajit, and he himself falls in love with Satyajit's daughter Sumita, a
barefoot, white-saried girl . . .
A cult novel from one of the forerunners of the Indian novel in English, it won of the Sahitya Akademi Award for 1967.
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