title: Kingdom's End: And Other Stories (India)
author: Sadat Hasan Manto
description: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, TRANSLATED FROM THE URDU, BY A WRITER CONSIDERED THE SUBCONTINENT'S GREATEST SHORT STORY WRITER. THIS EXCELLENT TRANSLATION HAS BEEN VARIOUSLY DESCRIBED AS 'MEMORABLE' (SALMAN RUSHDIE), 'AN ESTATE OF MANY MANSIONS' (FARRUKH DHONDY), 'IMPRESSIVE' (ANITA DESAI). ALL THE TRANSLATORS UNVARYINGLY CALL MANTO THE SUBCONTINENT'S FINEST MODERN SHORT STORY WRITER. FOR CONTENTS SEE OVER>>>> CONTENTS: TOBA TEK SINGH; THE DOG OF TITWAL; THE LAST SALUTE; THE RETURN; DOING GOD'S WORK; IT HAPPENED IN 1919; THE PRICE OF FREEDOM; THE WOMAN IN THE RED COAT; THE NEW CONSTITUTION; FREE FOR ALL; MOZAIL; THE ASSIGNMENT; COLDER THAN ICE; THE DUTIFUL DAUGHTER; THREE SIMPLE STATEMENTS; BABU GOPI NATH; A QUESTION OF HOUOUR; THE ROOM WITH THE BRIGHT LIGHT; A MAN OF GOD; MUMMY; THE WILD CACTUS; BY THE ROADSIDE; KINGDOM'S END; AFTERWORD: UNCLE MANTO'S DEATH.
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  ‘The highest morality for a king is that his kingdom should prosper’
  
  
  
  
  
  – Arthashastra
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Prologue](chapter0004.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1.‘Har, Har Modi’
  
  
  
  
  
  2.A Defunct Country
  
  
  
  
  
  3.First Term, First Days
  
  
  
  
  
  4.Still Early Days
  
  
  
  
  
  5.Domestic Affairs
  
  
  
  
  
  6.The Suit
  
  
  
  
  
  7.The Lynchings
  
  
  
  
  
  8.Demonetization
  
  
  
  
  
  9.Disappointment
  
  
  
  
  
  10.Article
  
  
  
  
  
  11.Desert Wanderings
  
  
  
  
  
  12.Media Management
  
  
  
  
  
  13.Final Months
  
  
  
  
  
  14.Modi 2.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Epilogue](chapter0019.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Index](chapter0020.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Acknowledgements](chapter0021.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [About the Book](chapter0022.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [About the Author](chapter0023_split_000.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Copyright](chapter0024.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Prologue](chapter0003.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  IT is in times of dark despair that people hope for a messiah. And at the time
  that India celebrate