30th State

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'We will be India's thirtieth state, and I, madam speaker, will be the last prime minister of England.' With just eighteen words, Mark Richardson ends a thousand years of English history.

The Indian prime minister makes Bradford-born Karan Puri leader of her first overseas territory. Karan and his wife Isha become 10 Downing's glittering power couple. His political soulmate, Oliver, meets his match in Arun, a young Maharashtrian politician sent to repatriate the riches of India's new empire. Assets are grabbed. Freedoms diminished. People killed. The lives of the four become as dangerously entangled as the fatal relationship between India and its imperial jewel.

Thrilling, provocative and racy, 30th State imagines a broken Britain desperately taking life-saving assistance from its former colony. The world is turned upside down as a muscular India forces its new dominion to right past wrongs-and creates some new ones.

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Published	01 Jul 2025
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Pages	224
ISBN	9789361316036
Imprint	Bloomsbury India
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

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Alan Gemmell

'A provocative, sharply satirical thriller that flips history on its head. Gemmell masterfully explores power, politics, and empire in a future where England becomes India's newest colony.'

Vikas Swarup, former Indian High Commissioner of Canada and author of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
'It is 2027, and the beleaguered Kingdom of Britain-no longer “United” or “Great”, politically rudderless, financially bankrupt, and without any allies-finds itself being sucked into the orbit of its most coveted former colony, the jewel in its long-lost crown-India-becoming in the process its thirtieth state.

This saga of reverse colonisation-where India is nearly imagined as the swaggering hero of a retro “masala” Bollywood movie, reincarnating to exact revenge on former tormentors-may seem outlandish. But in fact, it is a cautionary tale, grippingly told, which could serve to awaken Britain to the perils of historical amnesia: of glossing over the horrific realities of Empire to yearn for that mythical age long gone.

As audacious as it is astute in its searing examination of modern Britain's political and social faultlines, sumptuously rich in detail and brilliantly executed, Alan Gemmell's 30th State is a triumph of insight and imagination.'

Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament and author of INGLORIOUS EMPIRE: WHAT THE BRITISH DID TO INDIA