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The Musket Men
Paperback
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: Mar 10 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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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