![]() Jackson again relies on stereotypical representation of the mutiny. Though the subtitle suggests it being a tale of Indian mutiny, the novel is primarily a family drama told in the background of the mutiny.Ī Brave Girl written by Alice F. However, the novel very cleverly sidelines all pertinent political questions surrounding the mutiny. The benevolence that the natives show to the English is undermined by a suggestion of their ignorance of the uprising. The Brisbane family again upholds the english virtues of stoicism and valour in the face of all adverse circumstances. Lost in the Jungle presents a sensationalization of history by Augusta Marryat. Divided into three parts the novel narrates the history of individuals rather than the uprising and bears the subtitle ‘A Tale of Modern Chivalry’ Mutiny happens to afford opportunity to Maxwell Gray to command respect despite his low family status. In the Heart of the Storm written by Maxwell Gray is a novel about the social status concept. This red year, is seen as a time when two cultures clashed and native barbarism lost to English civilization. Tracy is quite vocal in his concern of a major English crisis, that of the rape of English women by the mutineers. ![]() Thus, Roshanara is caught in her love between Frank Malcolm and Nana Sahib. The novel is a historical romance more than fictionalized history, where some records of history are mingled with fragments of imagination to make for an interesting read. The British bias is again very obvious here, all English men are stoic, calm, well mannered, while natives are all bestialized. The author devices a love story to make the fiction somewhat interesting but very soon the documentary mode takes over and love story takes a back seat. More than a novel the narrative reads like a documentary. The Red Year written by Louis Tracy draws on the bloodshed of the 1857-58. Forrest clearly establishes the fact that the British actually helped the native by taking over and maintains that most of the natives were happier under the British rule. The novel is all praise for the British, Melvil’s being the only English voice that seriously dislikes the treatment of the natives by their English masters. Forrest manifests a major bias against the native, using words like ‘swarm’ for the natives thereby dehumanizing them on one hand and valorizing the British on the other who cannot be overcome by the native unless the latter come in swarms. On one hand the English domestic spaces are shown as the ideal, warm spaces where Jean Wardlaw like women manifest good British character and on the other hand the Indian courts are seats of intrigue where envious, deceitful women contrive against each other. Celebrating the feminine heroism over male heroism the novel also seeks to establish the male villains in the native lech. Forrest published in 1891, narrates the British perspective of Indian history of the uprising, till the end of Zafar’s exile to Rangoon. The novel attempts to cater to every bit of British imagination of the exotic life in India barring albeit, the vilification of the native.Įight Days by R. Bryda and her friend Lottie escape the disturbed environs that the uprising creates and helped by their native servants the girls reach a safe refuge after going through a series of adventures. Bryda by Louise Frances Field was authored in 1888 and reflects a fresh approach in terms of Field’s depiction of the native as the loyal, submissive race that it truly was. Mutiny novels have generally to be read with a caution in mind that they almost always have a British bias. The series includes Alice F Jackson’s A Brave Girl, Bryda by Louise Frances Field, R E Forrest’s Eight Days, In The Heart of the Storm penned by Maxwell Gray, Lost in the Jungle by Augusta Marryat and The Red Year written by Louis Tracy. Nayar with a short but crisp preface and introduction was released by DC Publishers. A series of mutiny novels edited by Pramod K.
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