Gautam Chakravarty explores representations of the event which has become known in the British imagination as the 'Indian Mutiny' of 1857 in British popular fic

An innovative study using the commemoration of 1857 as a prism through which to explore 150 years of Indian history.

Herbert considers why the Victorian public saw the Indian Mutiny of 1857-59 as an epochal event and offers a view of this episode, and of Victorian imperialist

Accessible and comprehensive account of the sensation novel of the nineteenth century.