The Man Who Stole Seven Years – A Time-Travel Novel of Manipur

Can one man steal seven years from history?

Manipur, 1819. A kingdom stands on the edge of catastrophe.

Nongthombam Arin is a modern printing-press manager who understands deadlines, machines and the permanence of words. When floodwater carries him out of his own time, he awakens in Manipur more than two centuries earlier.

He possesses a damaged phone, a waterproof bag and knowledge of what history says will happen next.

The Burmese invasion will devastate the kingdom. Fields will be abandoned, families scattered and rival princes driven into exile. The coming years will be remembered as the Seven Years’ Devastation.

Arin knows the dates—but knowledge of history is not the same as the power to control it.

Yumlembam Thambal has little patience for strangers, prophecies or promises of rescue. A weaver, organiser and keeper of hidden stores, she understands that kingdoms survive through the ordinary people who preserve grain, routes, skills and memory.

Together, Arin and Thambal begin building a secret network capable of keeping communities alive. Their alliance slowly becomes something deeper, even as approaching armies force them to make impossible choices.

Every person they save changes the future.

Every altered battle creates new enemies.

And every victory raises a dangerous question: if Arin prevents the history he remembers, what will replace it?

The Man Who Stole Seven Years is an epic historical time-travel novel about love, resistance, survival and the price of changing history. Set during one of Manipur’s most devastating eras, it combines intimate human drama with political intrigue, battlefield action and sweeping alternate history.

Inside the novel

• A modern protagonist transported to Manipur in 1819
• The historical background of the Seven Years’ Devastation
• A powerful partnership and slow-burning romance
• Battles, strategy, espionage and survival
• Hidden food stores, refugee routes and community resistance
• Rival princes, invading forces and shifting alliances
• Difficult moral questions about power and historical change
• A Manipur-centred story in which local people retain agency over their future

Recommended for readers who enjoy

Historical fiction, time-travel novels, alternate history, romantic war fiction, military adventures, survival sagas and stories about changing the past.