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paragon1 posted:So does anyone know what country it is that Captain Nemo is supposed to hate so much that he attacks a war ship at the end? I don't think it's explicitly stated in the books. Could be wrong, I read it in middle school. Nemo was revealed in The Mysterious Island - a Verne novel that was a sort of crossover sequel to both Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea and In Search of the Castaways - to be... lemme just let Wikipedia explain. quote:On his death bed, Captain Nemo reveals his true identity as the lost Indian Prince Dakkar, son of a raja of the then-independent territory of Bundelkund and a nephew of the Indian hero Tippu-Sahib. After taking part in the failed Indian Rebellion of 1857, Prince Dakkar escaped to a desert island with twenty of his compatriots and commenced the building of the Nautilus and adopted the new name of "Captain Nemo". The country whose ship he attacked was never explicitly given, but apparently "In early drafts of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, Nemo appears as a Polish noble, a member of the szlachta bent on avenging the murder of his family during Russia's violent suppression of the January Uprising. However Verne's editor Pierre-Jules Hetzel feared that the book not only would offend the Russian Empire, a major French ally, but would also be banned from that country's bookstores. Accordingly Hetzel insisted that Verne revise the novel to conceal Nemo's background and political motivations.[2][3] Even so, one of the captain's remarks in the published book could hint at an East Indian ancestry: during the episode where he rescues a Ceylonese pearl fisherman in the Gulf of Mannar, Nemo describes the man as living "in the land of the oppressed, and till my last breath I'll remain a native of that same land."" So my guess is England (in the latter; Bundelkhand was conquered by the British), even if Verne's original conception was that his grudge would be against Russia.
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