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The Pakur Murder Case of 1933, in which a member of colonial India’s rural aristocracy killed his brother with an injection of plague germs, was a global sensation that exposed a more complex side of pre-Independence India than the Gandhi-centered narrative many Western readers may be familiar with. The murder took place against a backdrop of political assassinations, violently-suppressed protest, technological and consumer advances – and heaps of elite gaiety. To mark the release of his book The Prince and the Poisoner: The Murder that Rocked the British Raj, Dan Morrison will talk about a collision of murder, medicine and the movies that scandalized and titillated Jazz Age India, and explore the history of murder by microbe and the age-old practice of royal fratricide, with cameos from figures including Jawaharlal Nehru, Satyajit Ray, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.