The Sagas
Distant Threads
Outsiders who ended up in Indian service, and Indian things that ended up a long way from home.
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Sergey Prokofieff
In 1920 a Russian engineer walked out of Soviet Central Asia to Persia and kept going until he reached India. He worked on the Tansa waterworks Mumbai still drinks from, and in 1927 Gwalior made him an executive engineer.
The rocket's red glare
The rockets in the American anthem trace back to a foundry in Mysore — captured in 1799, re-engineered in England, fired over Baltimore in 1814. And one man commanded battalions for the Peshwa before becoming a US general.
From Raigad to Israel
Three hundred and fifty years after the coronation, the reach of what was built at Raigad turns up somewhere nobody expects.