The Nawab’s Tears

Ajit Mani

Nov 2018 · Partridge Publishing

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Professor Avaran Kuriakose specialises in the history of the Deccan. A former colleague and friend calls him to the erstwhile state of Arcot to decipher a set of clues contained in a Masonic Lodge Minutes Book and a 250 year old diary. Avaran locates a long lost family heirloom with a gory past. He is a Freemason and Knight Templar and knows his life is in danger because of his involvement in this assignment. The story has a highly readable account of the Carnatic Wars at the end of which the English East India Company emerged as a colonial power. Political discussions give an insight into some of the tensions over the hangovers of British rule, notably the English language and the Indo Anglians. There is a brief discussion on the Anglo Indians of mixed blood, most of whom have emigrated to the UK and Australia due to a sense of insecurity. Avaran’s life is endangered when he visits the medieval Gingee Fort and again when he is assaulted in a moving train by a jealous family member. A historically credible reconstruction of events attempts to explain the mysterious disappearance of the vast treasure of the Vijayanagara Empire.

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Ajit Mani was born in pre-Independence India and represents an early generation of English educated Indians of Independent India. Ajit Mani studied history and experienced the organisation of the British Empire in his first job. He is a Freemason and Knight Templar whose esoteric knowledge finds expression in the narrative.