Nation in Imagination: Essays on Nationalism, Sub-nationalisms, and Narration edited by C Vijayasree, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Harsh Trivedi, T Vijay Kumar;
The Indian Mutiny of 1857 marked a shift in governance from the Mughal emperor to the East India Company. The literature of this period indicates a movement away from India as an adventure space to India as a domestic space. This essay examines two novels, to show the dissolution of a romantic and picturesque India; instead it is a land that is feminised, determined and bound to its colonial masters.
