“Four craftsmen forge a weapon that will change the fate of a rising colonial power. In return, that power quietly reshapes their lives.
Set against the rise of the British East India Company, The Musket Men is a haunting historical novel about power that conquers not with chains, but with comfort. Lured from their village by promises of honor, love, and a better life, four Indian men become unwitting architects of a colonial machine whose true cost they do not yet understand.
As their skills sharpen, their freedom erodes—until the truth arrives too late, and awakening itself becomes a kind of punishment.
This is a story of power built not only on conquest, but on the quiet theft of human futures.”
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Gowtham Aditya Peri
Gowtham Aditya Peri is from Visakhapatnam and currently lives in Hyderabad. He works as a Senior Software Engineer. The Musket Men is his first novel.
He welcomes reader feedback at perigowthamaditya@gmail.com
