{"product_id":"dead-man-wandering-the-case-that-shook-a-country-9788178244884","title":"Dead Man Wandering: The Case that Shook a Country","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Partha Chatterjee\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1921 a travelling sadhu appeared by a river bund in Dhaka. He was there every day. Soon, people began to identify him as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal, a young zamindar who had died twelve years earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis wife denounced him as an impostor. His sisters welcomed him back. This resulted in one of the most extraordinary legal cases in Indian history: it held the entire country’s attention for several decades as it unwound in courts from Dhaka and Calcutta to London.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is possibly the most riveting work of history ever written in the Indian subcontinent. Ever since it first appeared, Partha Chatterjee’s \u003cem\u003eA Princely Impostor? \u003c\/em\u003e(2002), a telling of the notorious “Bhawal Sannyasi Case”—among India’s best-known legal disputes—has been recognized as world-class narrative history in a league of its own. Chatterjee has written a book as spell-binding as any great Victorian or Russian novel, a story replete with courtroom drama, sexual debauchery, family intrigue, and squandered wealth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45616491790487,"sku":"9788178244884","price":499.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788178244884.webp?v=1769294939","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dead-man-wandering-the-case-that-shook-a-country-9788178244884","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}