‘Mulk Raj Anand’s Across the Black Waters: remembering Indian soldiers in WW1’ with Alistair Niven

Man Booker Prize judge Alistair Niven discusses the politics of Indian soldiers in the First World War, as explored in Mulk Raj Anand’s recently republished classic book on the subject, ‘Across the Black Waters’.

“This re-publication of Mulk Raj Anand’s Across the Black Waters brings back into focus a writer of astonishing range and profound humanity. No other Indian writer in the 1930s thought to memorialise the contribution of Indian soldiers to the First World War, which had ended only twenty years before.

Anand wrote the book partly as a warning against another war. He was living in England at the time, where he could see close up how Europe was drifting back to the hostilities which only exhaustion, and political transformations in so many of the warring countries, had terminated in 1918. Anand had also recently witnessed the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. Another world war would be the same, only writ much larger.” Alistair Niven

Please join Man Booker Prize judge Alistair Niven for an evening to discuss the politics of Indian soldiers involvement in the First World War, as explored in Mulk Raj Anand’s recently republished classic book on the subject, ‘Across the Black Waters’.

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