The Siege that lead to the fall of the Empire in J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur

Abstract

The present paper deals with the fall of the British Empire. The novelist J. G. Farrell brings about the reasons for the fall of the Empire. The local people who were fed up of the British rule started rebelling against the colonial masters. The Siege of Krishnapur which was taken easy by the British leads to the fall of the empire. The ignorance of the British leads to their own downfall. The Colonial masters neglected the local customs and traditions which were very important to the colonized. The paper brings out how vain was the rule of the British in India and also how their own policy of divide and rule became a boomerang to them.