MCCLUSKIEGANJ
THE STORY OF THE ONLY ANGLO-INDIAN VILLAGE IN INDIA
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Vikas Kumar Jha
Translated from Hindi by Mahasweta Ghosh
In this award-winning and best-selling Hindi novel, Robin McGowan undertakes a trip to India after living in Hong Kong till the age of 20. He goes to the village his father always told him about: McCluskieganj, an agricultural haven in Bihar, formed for Anglo-Indians in the early 1940s. On his arrival, he sees that the village is no longer the idyllic home of his father’s childhood. It is overrun by outlaws and land mafias, and riddled with politicking and conflicts between various tribes and the Anglo-Indians, who once coexisted peacefully.
Harpercollins India, 304 pages, Rs 399
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