num_pages: 369
description: In 1932, Nurullah, a teacher aged twenty-three, comes to the city of Akbarabad. He teaches literature to first-years at the university and encounters a non-violent resistance movement against British rule. It seems to him a bizarre way for an occupied country to confront an empire in a violent unequal world - one more wrong turn, among others, that Indian history has taken. During the ten years from 1932 that he lives with a non-violent family in the 'national monument' that their doomed mansion has become, Akbarabad educates him in varied ways, leaving him stubbornly resistant to non-violence. The book ends in 1968 with a look-back and a reconsideration by the man Nurullah has now become.
language: English
title: Lesser Breeds
titlecomplete: Lesser Breeds
characters: Nurullah, Bhai (Nikhil), Otto Schelling, Eknath, Desmond Knox, Shãn, Leda Knox
genres: Politics
ratings_count: 4
places: India, The United States of America
publisher: HarperCollins India