The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination.(Book review) From: CLIO | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: Graff, Ann-Barbara | COPYRIGHT 2006 Indiana University, Purdue University of Fort Wayne. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination. By Gautam Chakravarty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xi + 242 pages.

Since Hilda Greg undertook to review Mutiny fiction for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1897, a great deal has happened to limit the scope and authority of that essay. For instance, the British Empire and the ideologies which buoyed it have shriveled away; insurrection (which was so oddly unexpected in 1856-57) has become an increasingly r...

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