Large events that make it to the history books often subsequently remain in public memory as stand-alone incidents. Inspired by real events and historical figures, Navtej Sarna’s Crimson Spring recreates a turning point in India’s history and is a detailed look at the cascading effects of a single event upon the peoples of both India and Britain. Though a work …
Crimson Spring is a liminal novel, on the cusp of fiction, grounded in the horrors of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Interwoven with these dramatis personae are the actual historical personages, Sir Michael O’Dwyer, then Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, and R.E.H Dyer, the instigator and perpetrator respectively of the brutal massacre, and Udham Singh, who waited twenty-one years to kill Michael …
