The Lost Victory

The Lost Victory perfectly captures the cultural essence of 1942 and the urgency of this colourful and moving pageant of a nation about to throw off the yoke of foreign rule. Essentially it is the story of Buta Singh a shrewd and wily official working with the British and of Sher Singh his vain and ambitious son driven to rebellion against the foreign master. It is also the story of the women of the family Champak Sher’s beautiful wife her wild passions bursting the bonds of century-old prohibitions and Sabhrai Sher’s mother whose matriarchal strength sustains the family in its time of crisis. What happens to this family when a brutal and senseless murder sets father against son wife against husband is told against the background of an India torn by religious tension and fraternal strife. About the Author Khushwant Singh was India’s best-known writer and columnist. He was founder-editor of Yojana and editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India the National Herald and Hindustan Times. He was a member of Parliament from 1980 to 1986. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 but returned the decoration in 19984 in protest against the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar by the Indian Army. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan. He passed away in 2014 at the age of ninety-nine.