Indic Chronicles · Book 1
Legend of Suheldev
The King Who Saved India
After Somnath falls, one king unites a broken land against the Turkic invaders.
The story
Repeated attacks by Mahmud of Ghazni and his barbaric Turkic hordes have weakened India’s northern regions. The invaders lay waste to vast swathes of the subcontinent—plundering, killing, raping, pillaging. Many of the old Indian kingdoms, tired and divided, fall to them. Those who do fight, battle with old codes of chivalry, and are unable to stop the savage Turkic army which repeatedly breaks all rules to win. Then the Turks raid and destroy one of the holiest temples in the land: the magnificent Lord Shiva temple at Somnath.
Context
Winner of the Golden Book Award (2022). Based on the eleventh-century king Suheldev of Shravasti and the Battle of Bahraich, the novel was written with the Immortal Writers’ Centre and is the first of the Indic Chronicles.
