Krishnasindhuki by Debarati Mukhopadhyay [Hardcover]

The Andaman Islands! A notorious penal colony. Countless women were exiled there, victims of the British government's politics of sexuality. Their harrowing lives form the backdrop of this thrilling historical novel. In an effort to build villages in the Andamans, these women were taken to become companions of hardened criminals.

Interwoven with this forgotten narrative is the tumultuous armed independence movement in undivided Bengal at the dawn of the twentieth century. Cellular jail. Revolution. Betrayal. Love. Deceit. Revenge. A group of brave Bengalis. And those lost prisoners. Amidst all these elements, along the shores of the Black Water, flows an epic tale of humanity's primal and unadulterated sorrow and triumph, from beginning to end, in this grand novel.