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Kanhoji Angre is born to Tukoji Sankhpal, keeper of the Suvarnadurg Fort for Shivaji, emperor of the Marathas. A child of the seas, Kanhoji is as much at home in the turbulent waters of Konkan as in the forts and forests of the Desha mainland. But the enemies of their empire are never too far away. The Mughals are in constant battle with the Marathas on land, while the Siddis and the newly arrived Portuguese threaten to destroy them at sea. There’s also the British East India Company who have arrived as traders and settled on the island of Kulaba, paying taxes to Kanhoji.

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'Sohail Rekhy's Angria is an ambitious attempt to evoke the maritime world of the Konkan coast in the late seventeenth century' - Amitav Ghosh 'Angria dredges from the depths of our history the saga of the valorous hero Kanhoji Angre and his resistance to the colonialists. This absorbing saga heralds an excellent debut' - Dr Shashi Tharoor 'A wonderful debut that makes our history comes alive through fiction' - Vir Sanghvi 'The saga of Sarkhel Kanhoji Angre! A delightful mix of the real and the imagined' - Dr Uday S. Kulkarni

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Sohail Rekhy was born in Mumbai to actors Waheeda Rehman and Kamaljeet and spent several summers and countless weekends on the shores of Raigad District. He grew up in Bangalore, fascinated by Indian history, and went on to study literature at the University of Toronto.

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