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The Confession of Sultana Daku
The Confession of Sultana Daku is a 2009 historical novel by Sujit Saraf.〔(The Honourable Bandit : Review at India Today )〕 The novel is about the swashbuckling criminal career of Sultana Daku (''Daku'' is the Hindustani for bandit ), undisputedly the most notorious dacoit in modern India's history.〔(The Real History of the Terror called Sultana )〕
He, actually, belonged to ''bhantu'' clan of criminals who terrorized the United Provinces (as Uttar Pradesh was then known) in 1920. The novel begins after he is captured by the ruling British and thrown into the Haldwani Gaol.〔(Bhupesh Bhandari: Sordid tales of bandit Sultana )〕 Here, just, a few hours to the gallows, he has a change of heart and he requests for Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Pearce, the officer who, ironically, played a major role in capturing him.〔(Review at Telegraph )〕
The officer, readily enthusiastic of Indian culture,〔(Review in Dawn by Saba Sulaiman )〕 always keeps a paper and a pencil ready, so it does not take Sultana much to pursue him to record his biography, and that's necessary because he would like his clansmen, especially his son to know how he felt and thought through his hefty upheavals throughout the ups and downs of his meteoric criminal life. Here we come to know of his deepest feelings, his love for his horse Chetak (the choice of name indicates his love for chivalry, that being the historical mount of Maharana Pratap), (while his dog's name - Rai Bahadur, perhaps hints his despise for upper class)〔(Honour Killing )〕
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