God of the Sullied

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God of the Sullied
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Author Gaurav Sharma
CountryIndia
LanguageEnglish
SubjectNovel
GenreFiction, Historical fiction
PublishedThink Tank Books
Publication date
September 2018
Media typeBook
Pages240 pages
ISBN 978-81-9362-044-1
OCLC 1100763884

God of the Sullied is an Indian national bestselling [1] historical (mythological) novel written by Gaurav Sharma. [2] It is the first book of The Sullied Warrior Duology and has a sequel, Long Live the Sullied . [3] [4] [5] God of the Sullied is set in the ninth-century Indian state of Rudraputra (fictional location). Several rejections of this book's manuscript resulted in the creation of the book The Indian Story of an Author , a symbolic protest by Gaurav Sharma. [6] [7]

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Publication

The first edition of God of the Sullied was published in September 2018 by Think Tank Books, a Delhi-based publishing house. [8] The Hindi translation of the book by the author came out in September 2020 as Charitranayak Eklavya. [9] [10]

Synopsis

God of the Sullied is a story about an underachieving, innocent and supposedly cursed child, who in the end, conquers the world and demolishes the evil. The story revolves around ninth century India, just after the sudden demise of Adi Shankaracharya – a time when a unique and exotic Ikshavaku tribe lives somewhere in Rudraputra. Their scion, Eklavya, as per the predictions of Maha-Purohit (high priest), would take birth with a purpose of demolishing the evil from the earth. The child is declared mystic. However, he would later be clutched in the hands of Kali, the darkness. [11]

Reception

Main characters

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