Bhoobun Mohun's doomed revolt of 1945
In 1835 Kylas Chunder Dutt, then a Calcutta student, published a short tale imagining an armed Indian uprising against British rule set 110 years later, in 1945. The patriot Bhoobun Mohun leads the rising, which British forces crush within the forty-eight hours of the title, and he is executed defiant, having chosen death over submission. It is regarded as the first work of Indian fiction written in English.