London: British Indian journalist and author Anita Anand’s book that tells the story of a young man caught up in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar has won a prestigious history-literary prize in the UK.
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj’ beat six other titles for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2020, awarded annually for a non-fiction book of specifically historical content.
The judges described it as a genuine historical classic which will be read for decades to come.
Anita Anand’s The Patient Assassin’ is the story of a murderer and his victim a British colonial official assassinated by an Indian avenger more than two decades after the horrific Amritsar massacre of 1919, for which that official was partly responsible. Yet it is much more than the story of two men, said Rana Mitter, chair of judges.
It is an account of how global the spirit of anti-imperialist revolution was in the early twentieth century. It is also an…
