The Confession of Sultana Daku
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By Sujit Saraf
Penguin India,
296 pages, Rs 399
From the author of the highly-praised The Peacock Throne comes a novel based on the real-life Sultana Daku, an early twentieth-century bandit who was sentenced to death by a colonial court. In this retelling of Sultana Daku’s tale, Saraf imagines him narrating his life story – the escapades, adventures, love affairs, friendships and betrayals – to a British officer, aware throughout that in the morning he will be hanged.
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