Author's Note and Acknowledgments xi
Prologue: Nothing Can Go Wrong 1(4)
Chapter One A Rose in the Badlands
5(23)
Chapter Two Bandits on Ballots
28(36)
Chapter Three The Red Room
64(38)
Chapter Four Love in Bundelkhand
102(38)
Chapter Five Everything Wrong has Happened
140(25)
Chapter Six The Exorcist of Shahbajpur
165(38)
Chapter Seven The Sound of the Bugle
203(30)
Chapter Eight The Scramble for Sheelu
233(26)
Epilogue 259(6)
Notes 265