The Siege of Krishnapur: Online Resources
Articles & Reviews of The Siege
The Booker Prizes: Revisiting J.G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur, 50 years on
Slightly Foxed: Rebellion at the Residency (paywall)
The Guardian: The Siege Of Krishnapur by JG Farrell – imperial folly comes fatally undone
The Guardian: Looking back at the Booker: JG Farrell
The Irish Times: JG Farrell: Plagued by Disease (first published in the Journal of Epidemiology)
Romance and carnage, hopeless pursuit—two novels - The New York Times
Articles & Media about J.G. Farrell’s life and writing
London Review of Books: Christopher Tayler · His Peach Stone: J.G. Farrell
Malcolm Dean remembers his friend J.G. Farrell: J.G. Farrell - Harkness Fellow
TLS: Colonial Contexts, a review of Rebecca Ziegler’s book on J.G. Farrell’s writing
RTE Documentary On One - JG Farrell: 149 Days in the Life Of
Farrell's biographer Lavinia Greacen & niece Rosie Farrell - Tuesday 16 July 2019
History
Diaries from the Siege at Lucknow
A Diary Kept by Mrs. R. C. Germon, at Lucknow, between the months of May and December, 1857. - J.G. Farrell’s source
A Memoir, Letters and Diary of the Rev. Henry S. Polehampton, M.A., Chaplain of Lucknow - J.G. Farrell’s source
The Siege of Lucknow, A Diary . By Julia Selina, Lady Inglis, 1833-1904. London
Mark Thornhill, the Collector at Muttra in 1857
The personal adventures and experiences of a magistrate during the rise, progress, and suppression of the Indian mutiny, by Mark Thornhill - J.G. Farrell’s source
Podcasts
William Dalrymple and Anita Anand’s Empire Podcast, Season 1
Episode 3 Mutiny, Uprising and Rebellion
Books
History
‘The Last Mughal’ by William Dalrymple
Related novels
‘Burmese Days’ by George Orwell (1934)
‘Nightrunners of Bengal’ by John Masters (1951)
The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott: ‘The Jewel in the Crown’ ( 1966), ‘The Day of the Scorpion’ (1968), ‘The Towers of Silence’ (1971) and ‘A Division of the Spoils’ (1975)