Anchor: For the moment they benumbed his brain.
Entailed: Temporarily, they deadened his mind.
Contradiction: He was permanently agitated.
Contradiction: Srirangapatnam is west of the Mysore area.  
Contradiction: Men work with wet cement by the train track.
Contradiction: A man is talking to himself with no one else around.
Contradiction: He told the sergeant that there was probably a book involved.