On November 29, 1933, Amarendra Chandra Pandey, a 22-year-old wealthy young zamindar was about to board a train from Calcutta’s bustling Howrah station when a stranger collided with him. A little over two months later, his half-brother, Benoyendra, the Raja of Pakur, was dramatically arrested from a train and charged with committing what writer Dan Morrison calls “a thoroughly modern …
