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India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one of the finest British novels of the last fifty years.

Farrell's story is set in an isolated Victorian outpost on the subcontinent. Rumors of strife filter in from afar, and yet the members of the colonial community remain confident of their military and, above all, moral superiority. But when they find themselves under actual siege, the true character of their dominion—at once brutal, blundering, and wistful—is soon revealed. The Siege of Krishnapur is a companion to Troubles, about the Easter 1916 rebellion in Ireland, and The Singapore Grip, which takes place just before World War II, as the sun begins to set upon the British Empire. Together these three novels offer an unequaled picture of the follies of empire.

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I've read this and thoroughly recommnend it. I think it won the Booker prize a while back. There is some good detail of the fighting during the seige which may interest gamers.

Cannot recommend highly enough: These books are not only interesting, they're very funny and brilliantly written. Farrell pretty much makes every incident in the book reflect on the major theme of the book; if you read carefully, there is not a single wasted word or incident.

A fantastic book well worth anyones time and money.

Looks good, I've just bought it.

Jim Farrell was a great writer, each of his later novels deals with conflict within the Empire, the Indian Mutiny, the Anglo Irish war in 1921 (not the Easter Rising), the British collapse in Malaya and Imperial sunset in the unfinished 'Hill Station at Simla'. His tragic and untimely death (he fell out of his boat and having suffered polio as a young man, lacked the strength to pull himself back in) robbed us all of a great talent.