Preface
Ten Incarnations of Rebellion is an alternate history, imagining an independence movement that might have been had the British Empire's freedom-suppressing tactics been more successfully em-ployed in India. The book departs from history in the 1910s, and many of our timeline's foremost Indian freedom fighters are mur-dered in the next decades. The novel takes place in a still-colonized 1960s version of Mumbai, rife with militarized restrictions and cultural repression, that has been renamed Kingston and bears only a passing resemblance to the city of today. The events of this book are not history; for those interested in exploring India's freedom movement, I have included a list of further reading at the end of this book.
About The Book
Kalki Divekar grows up a daughter of Kingston-a city the British built on the ashes of Bombay. The older generation, including her father, have been lost to the brutal hunt for rebels. Young men are drafted to fight wars they will never return from. And the people of her city are more interested in fighting one another than facing their true oppressors. When tragedy strikes close to home, Kalki begins to play a dangerous game with small acts of resistance, tempered by cautious, level-headed Yashu and fortified by Fauzia, whose dreams of the future awaken Kalki's heart. Together, they found Kingston's new independence movement, working for the British while secretly planning to destroy the empire from the inside out. But one wrong move means certain death, and when facing threats from all quarters, Kalki must decide whether it's more important to be a hero or to survive. Set over the course of a decade and told through ten moments from Kalki's life that mirror the Dashavatara, the ten avatars of Vishnu, Ten Incarnations of Rebellion is a sweeping, deeply felt novel of empowerment, friendship, self-determination, and the true meaning of freedom. 'A fascinating, innovative, and suspenseful alternate history of India's freedom struggle... Readers will fall in love-as I did with the heroine, Kalki, who is at once intelligent, courageous, and vulnerable'
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