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037			_cPurchased _nCurrent Books,Convent Jn.,Ernakulam
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bRUT/FO
100			_aRutherford,Alex
245			_aFORTUNE'S SOLDIER _bEpic Story of Robert Clive and The Dawn of the British Empire in India
250			_a1
260			_aGurugram _bHachette _c2018/01/01
300			_g429
500			_aIt is 1744, and Nicholas Ballantyne, a young Scotsman dreaming of a life as laird of his ancestral estate finds himself quite unexpectedly on the Winchester, a ship bound for Hindustan, seeking to begin a new life as a ‘writer’ on the rolls of the British East India Company. On board, he meets the spirited and mercurial Robert Clive, determined – at whatever cost – to make a fortune in a land of opportunity. Over the years that follow, their friendship sees many twists and turns as Clive’s restless hunger for wealth and power takes him from being a clerk to a commander in the Company’s forces, masterminding plans to snuff out rival French interests in Hindustan and eventually leading the company forces to victory at Plassey, the prelude to nearly two centuries of foreign rule in Hindustan. Brilliantly crafted, and bringing to life the momentous events that shook India in the mid-eighteenth century, Fortune’s Soldier is an epic tale of a fascinating era by a master storyteller.
650			_aFiction
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