Across the Black Waters: Rarely seen WW1 archive photos from September 1914 revealed.
This illustrated printing is the next stage of our Salt of the Sarkar project during these Centenary years of WW1 highlighting the contributions of soldiers from Undivided India – Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and others – who fought for Britain.We are excited at the opportunity to illustrate Mulk Raj Anand’s novel with photographs taken by Daily Mirror pioneer photographer, Horace Grant, during the first days and weeks of arrival of the historical regiment the novel is based on. These were the very first Indian troops to arrive in France to fight in a European war.
THE PROGRAMME
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We focus on the period covered by Mulk Raj Anand’s novel Across the Black Waters starting in Marseilles on 26 September 1914, and continuing on into the first bitter winter of the War in the trenches of Flanders and France. Fact and Fiction come together to tell the story.
Speakers:
• Baroness Flather
Memorial Gates Council
• Dr Santanu Das
Reader in English Literature, King’s College London
• John Mead
Archives Manager, Mirrorpix Library
• Dominic Rai and Caroline Goffin
Co-directors Salt of the Sarkar
Facts: We discover the collection of unique images taken by Horace Grant, Daily Mirror pioneer press photographer present in the South of France as the Indian troops arrived in Europe to fight in a European War for the first time.
Fiction: Across the Black Waters – We enjoy a short reading of an extract from Mulk Raj Anand’s novel and start to discover the life and experience of the soldiers.
Bringing Fact and Fiction together via an illustrated WW1 Centenary Edition of Across the Black Waters by Mulk Raj Anand. We invite you to join us by contributing to our crowdfunding appeal: https://igg.me/at/acrosstheblackwaters
And to sign up to our free e-publication Frontline, via our website http://saltsarkar.com, to receiving ongoing information and news about the project and the discoveries of how fiction and facts give voice to forgotten soldiers and insight to events in our world today.
“This re-print of Mulk Raj Anand’s classic novel, ‘Across the Black Waters’ is a significant moment in the centenary of the Great War.”
Jatinder Verma, Tara Arts, August 2014
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