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100			_aGhosh, Amitav _eauthor.
245			_aFlood of Fire
260			_aGurugram: _bPenguin Random House, _c2015.
300			_a616p. _b: ill. _c; 20 cm.
500			_aIncludes maps
520			_aIt is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government declares war. One of the vessels requisitioned for the attack, the Hind, travels eastwards from Bengal to China, sailing into the midst of the First Opium War. The turbulent voyage brings together a diverse group of travellers, each with their own agenda to pursue. Among them is Kesri Singh, a sepoy in the East India Company who leads a company of Indian sepoys; Zachary Reid, an impoverished young sailor searching for his lost love, and Shireen Modi, a determined widow en route to China to reclaim her opium-trader husband's wealth and reputation. Flood of Fire follows a varied cast of characters from India to China, through the outbreak of the First Opium War and China's devastating defeat, to Britain's seizure of Hong Kong.
650			_aBritish—India—Fiction. _vHistorical fiction. _9811035
650			_aIndia—History—19th century—Fiction _vChina—History—19th century—Fiction _xOpium War, 1st, China, 1839–1842—Fiction _9811036
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