Lesser Breeds

By Nayantara Sahgal

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8172234449
• ISBN13: 9788172234447
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"