DOING TIME WITH NEHRU

Yin Marsh

During the Sino-Indian Border War of 1962, over 2,000 ethnic Chinese Indians were rounded up without trial, placed in jails, and transported to Deoli internment camp in Rajasthan. Yin Marsh was a thirteen-year-old living in Darjeeling when she and members of her immediate family—including her eight-year-old brother and infirm grandmother— were arrested, incarcerated in the local jail, and sent to Deoli. In this harrowing memoir, Marsh tells her family’s story.

Zubaan Books, 190 pages, Rs 495