The Siege of Krishnapur: Further 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)
The Empire Under Siege | Pankaj Mishra | The New York Review of Books (paywall)
Romance and carnage, hopeless pursuit—two novels - The New York Times (contains spoilers)
Longreads, Profiles & Tributes to J.G. Farrell
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
Farrell's biographer Lavinia Greacen & niece Rosie Farrell - Tuesday 16 July 2019
Radio Documentary
RTE Documentary On One - JG Farrell: 149 Days in the Life Of
Academic Works: Available with Login or Purchase
Papers, Articles & Theses
(2020) Colonial Medicine and Cholera: Historicizing Victorian Medical Debates in J.G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur by Prashant Maurya and Nagendra Kumar
(2018) History and Memory in J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur by Sarah Zaré Farjoodi
(2018) “Bricks Are Undoubtedly an Essential Ingredient of Civilisation”: Layers of Reconstruction in J.G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) by Jaine Chemmachery
(2017) The Dog Days of Empire: Black Humour and the Bestial in J.G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur by Ryan D. Fong
(2014) ‘A Great Beneficial Disease’: Colonial Medicine and Imperial Authority in J.G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur by Sam Goodman
(2013) Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell | International Journal of Epidemiology by Jane E. Ferrie
(2009) The Failure of the Concept of the White Man’s Burden in James Gordon Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur by Fatma Kalpaklı Yeğin
(2005) The Influence of Samuel Beckett on the Fiction of J. G. Farrell by Ralph J. Crane
(2003) J. G. Farrell's Indian Works: His Majesty's Subjects? by D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke
(2001) The Tone of Empire: J. G. Farrell's Great Theme | Review of J. G. Farrell: The Making of a Writer by Lavinia Greacen by Mark Saunders
(2000) Review of Ralph J. Crane’s J.G. Farrell: The Critical Grip by Michael C. Prusse
(1998) Review of 'Troubled Pleasures: The Fiction of J. G. Farrell by Ralph Crane & Jennifer Livett' | Imperial Echoes by Bridget O'Toole
(1998) J. G. Farrell and the Imperial Theme by Earl Rovit
(1981) Review of The Hill Station: An Unfinished Novel by J. G. Farrell | After The Siege by David Simpson
Academic Books & Chapters
(2020) Rebounding Metaphors: Culture and Conquest in J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur by Judie Newman
(2019) J.G. Farrell’s Empire Novels: The Decline and Fall of the Human Condition by Rebecca Ziegler
(2014) "Tone and Register: Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Paul Scott, J. G. Farrell, Norman Douglas, Ronald Firbank, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Kazuo Ishiguro, Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O’Brien, Jeanette Winterson" in ‘The Novel: A Biography’ by Michael Schmidt
(1999) J.G.Farrell: The Making of a Writer by Lavinia Greacen
(2007) J.G. Farrell by John McLeod (amazon)
(1999) JG Farrell: The Critical Grip by Ralph J. Crane
(1997) Troubled Pleasures: Fiction of J.G. Farrell by Ralph Crane & Jessica Livett
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
A lady's diary of the siege of Lucknow. Written for the perusal of friends at home, by Mrs. James P. Harris.
Memoir of 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
The 1857 Rebellion
Empire Podcast, Season 1 Episode 3 Mutiny, Uprising and Rebellion
BBC: British History in depth: British India and the 'Great Rebellion'
Sepoy Mutiny - World History Encyclopedia
Indian Rebellion of 1857 | History, Causes, Effects, Summary, & Facts | Britannica
BBC Future: Did a flatbread help end British rule in India?
The East India Trading Company
East India Company: the original corporate raiders - New Statesman
What was the East India Company? | National Trust
East India Company - World History Encyclopedia
ThoughtCo.: East India Company - History of Britain
The Life of the British in India
The East India Voyager : Roberts, Emma : Internet Archive
The Englishwoman in India: information for ladies on their outfit, furniture [&c.] by a lady resident
Living in British Colonial India, 1750–1850
How food came to the rescue of the British in India
The Great Exhibition
Official catalogue - Great exhibition, 1851 - Google Books
Map of London showing site of Great Exhibition
Charlotte Bronte's letter to her father about the Great Exhibition , written in 1851.
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Great Exhibition of 1851
The Great Exhibition of 1851 | The Gazette
What was the Great Exhibition of 1851? | London Museum
The Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park - London
Opium, Empire & India
How Britain's opium trade impoverished Indians - BBC News
‘Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories’ by Amitav Ghosh
Victorian Britain
United Kingdom - Early and mid-Victorian Britain | Britannica
Timeline of the Industrial Revolution - Historic UK
Victorian ‘Ideas’: Moral Philosophy, Political Thought etc.
Chartism | British Working-Class Movement, Reforms & Demands | Britannica
The Chartist Movement - Historic UK
Introduction to John Stuart Mill and Extracts from 'The Spirit of the Age' Articles‘The Spirit of the Age’ Articles from The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill | Online Library of Liberty
Thomas Carlyle's "Signs of the Times" & a summary of ‘Signs of the Times’ by James C. Ungureanu
Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels
Sermons Volume 1 by Thomas Arnold - The Collector reads sermons by Thomas Arnold and Charles Kingsley to his daughters.
SERMONS FOR THE TIMES by Charley Kingsley - The Collector reads sermons by Thomas Arnold and Charles Kingsley to his daughters.
The History of Phrenology
‘The Spirit of the Age: Victorian Essays’ edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Books
‘The Last Mughal’ by William Dalrymple
‘The Anarchy: The Restless Rise of the East India Company’ by William Dalrymple
‘Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond’ by Sonia Shah
‘Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories’ by Amitav Ghosh
‘The Spirit of the Age: Victorian Essays’ edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb
‘Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary’ by Anita Anand
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‘A Passage to India’ by E.M. Forster (1924)
The Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh: ‘Sea of Poppies’ (2008), ‘River of Smoke’ (2011), ‘Flood of Fire’ (2015)