The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj Audiobook (Free)

‘Reads like something from a thriller…colourful, comprehensive and meticulously investigated’ Sunday Instances

‘Gripping from start to finish’ Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads

‘Exceptional and brilliantly explored nonfiction thriller…focussing using one extraordinary story that had never been properly informed before’ William Dalrymple, Spectator

Anita Anand reads her own remarkable tale of one Indian’s twenty-year quest for revenge, taking him around the world in search of those he held about THE INDIVIDUAL Assassin: A GENUINE Story of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj responsible for the Amritsar massacre of 1919, which cost the lives of hundreds.

When Sir Michael O’Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, purchased Brigadier General Reginald Dyer to Amritsar, he wished him to bring the troublesome town to high heel. Sir Michael experienced become more and more alarmed at the effect Gandhi was having on his province, aswell as recent presentations, strikes and displays of Hindu-Muslim unity. All these factors, in Sir Michael’s brain at least, were a precursor to a second Indian Mutiny. What happened next surprised the world. An unauthorised political gathering in the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in April 1919 became the center point for Sir Michael’s regulation enforcers. Dyer marched his troops in to the walled garden, filled with thousands of unarmed men, women and kids, blocking the only exit. After that, without issuing any order to disperse, he instructed his guys to open fire, turning their weapons within the thickest elements of the masses. For ten minutes, they continuing firing, stopping only when 1650 bullets have been fired. Not a solitary shot was fired in retaliation.

According to star, a young, low-caste orphan, Udham Singh, was harmed in the assault, and continued to be in the Bagh, surrounded by the useless and dying until he could move another morning. After that, he supposedly found a handful of blood-soaked globe, smeared it across his forehead and vowed to destroy the men responsible, regardless of how long it took.

The truth, as the writer has discovered, is certainly more technical but no less dramatic. She tracked Singh’s journey through Africa, america and across Europe before, in March 1940, he finally arrived in entrance of O’Dwyer within a London hall ready to take him down. THE INDIVIDUAL Assassin shines a damaging light on one of the Raj’s most horrific events, but reads like a taut thriller, and unveils some astonishing new insights into what actually happened.