Post - independence India was not shaping up as the utopia many had dreamed of. The British had departed, and that was only right and proper, but Prime Minister Nehru’s planned agrarian reforms had set the cat among the pigeons. Noble houses and feudal landlords were fighting tooth and nail to prevent legislation that would effectively strip them of their ancestral wealth and parcel it out to the peasantry that had, until now – with the blessings of the British – remained steadfastly beneath their boot - heels.

Vaseem Khan: The Dying Day (The Malabar House Series)