A Far Horizon

India in 1756 is a country on the brink of Empire. In Calcutta, the grandiose buildings of White Town, settled about Fort William and the activities of the East India Company, are in stark contrast to the bustle of native Black Town across the Maratha Ditch.  The events of this momentous year will settle forever the colonial history of India.  As yet, however, both Indian Black Town and British White Town are under the rule of Siraj Uddaulah, the hot-headed young nawab in Murshidabad whose name is linked forever with the notorious incident of the Black Hole of Calcutta.

The novel explores not only the events that led up to that incident but the lives of a town divided by race and culture and the prejudices that would soon, after the Battle of Plassey, grow unchecked in the era of Empire.