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The Salt of the Sarkar Story in PicturesHope you enjoy a few of our photographic memories from our journey so far sharing facts and fiction about the soldiers from Undivided India in World War One – Dominic and Caroline
Across the Black Waters is at the heart of Salt of the Sarkar. Photo Credit: Salt of the Sarkar
Across the Black Waters Production flyer 1998.
Photo Credit: Mán Melá Theatre Company
Launch of the Centenary Edition of the novel Across the Black Waters took place at Housmans Bookshop, London on 22 October 2014. Photo George Rosen Darrell
A collage celebrating the novel’s author Mulk Raj Anand, and history being brought to life through his fiction. Courtesy: Marilyn Stafford, Stewart Fraser, Alastair Niven, Imperial War Museum & Mán Melá Theatre Company
Performers in the 1998 production included left to right Qasim Kazmi, Vincent Ebrahim and Laura Whittard. Mán Melá Theatre Company
Mulk Raj Anand at home in Cuffe’s Parade, Bombay . Photo Credit: Alastair Niven
Mulk Raj Anand in London in 1930 & in Bombay in 2000. Courtesy Kewal Anand 1930 image, Stewart Fraser 2000 image
Postcard of the first Indian troops to arrive in France to fight in WW1 in the autumn of 1914 exactly as portrayed In Across the Black Waters. Purchased by Dominic Rai in Flanders in 1998
The Launch of the project Salt of the Sarkar took place on 13 October 2014 in Westminster. LCpl Prakash Rai, Bugler (2nd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles) played the bugle for The Last Post. Photo Credit: George Rosen Darrell
Those gathered in the House of Parliament’s Attlee Suite paid their respects to over 1 million soldiers from Undivided. India who fought for the British Empire in World War One. Photo Credit: George Rosen Darrell
Those contributing to the Launch Programme, hosted by John McDonnell MP, included Lt Col Marcus Reedman (2nd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles), Col James Robinson (Brigade of Gurkhas), Baroness Flather (Memorial Gates Council), Dominic Rai, Pia Khan (Reader), Alastair Niven (Friend of Mulk Raj Anand & Man Booker Prize Judge 1994 & 2014) and John Perkins (Head of History, Guru Nanak Academy Hayes) with a group of students. Photo Credit: George Rosen Darrell
The Launch on 13 October was the 1st time the Centenary Edition of Across the Black Waters, with images of Indian soldiers on the front cover, was available for purchase. Photo Credit: George Rosen Darrell
Dominic Rai shares both fiction and history at Heritage Day, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, in May 2016 during the run of the play Wipers by Ishy Din. Photo courtesy: Belgrade Theatre Coventry
Dominic Rai shares at the Guru Nanak Sikh Academy Awards Ceremony in July 2015. Photo Credit: Caroline Goffin
April 2016 and an opportunity to share with the Anand Mangal Group as part of Charnwood Arts Great War Centenary Project. Photo Credit: Madeleine Coburn, Charnwood Arts
An enthusiastic audience for Caroline as she shares a Bite- Size talk at Brighton Museum in June 2016. Photo Credit: Nina Emett
Caroline’s inspiration – historical facts surrounding Mulk Raj Anand’s novel which brings everything to life. Photo Credit: Caroline Goffin
The original War Diary for the 57th Wilde’s Rifles in November 1914. The origin of the ‘black hole’ is even mentioned in Mulk Raj Anand’s novel! Photo courtesy of National Archives Kew
Caroline’s first research trip to the Imperial War Museum in 1964, and she even brought home a picture of the 57th Wilde’s Rifles taken in October 1914 at a time and place featuring in Across the Black Waters Photo Credit: Caroline Goffin
