However, the setting is changed as " the fictitious town of Krishnapur ('city of Krishna') " (Crane 84). Farrell's novel The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) is based on a historically true event, the Indian Mutiny or the Sepoys' Mutiny. In this novel, Farrell aims at showing the failure of the concept of the white man's burden and the claims of bringing civilisation into the so-called backward places like India and he suggests that if more sound policies had been followed, both the physical and cultural clashes between the English and the Indians may not have been occurred. The influence of the concept of the white man's burden on English men may also be seen in James Gordon Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur (1973).
Imperialist British policies impose this role, that is the concept of the white man's burden through education and literary works of art on the English men. With the discovery of new lands and with the improvements in sailing, the role of being enlightening colonisers is imposed on English men and this role is defined as " the white man man's burden " by Rudyard Kipling.
Religion is also discussed especially the collision of Christian, Hindu and Muslim practice in the face of historical imperatives and societal tension. Especially interesting is the discussion of male/female relationships and the transgressive engeries of nationalism in re determining power and position in pre and post independent India and, indeed, in England itself. The literary analysis undertaken focuses on the changes in attitude and expectation the British writers demonstrate in navigating the issues of race, class, gender, religion, education and age in both Indian and European characters and settings. The novels in question are ""Shadow of the Moon"" (1957) by Mary Margaret Kaye, the ""Siege of Knishnapur""(1973) by James Gordon Smith and ""White Teeth"" (2000)by Zadie Smith. It is through this prism that Dr Kapakli discusses, compares and contrasts Indian nationalism in three seminal novels. This is an intriguing and groundbreaking study by a scholar who not only is not British nor Indian but belongs to a society that has had its own imperial history as well as having a strong, revitalizing nationalist movement in the 20th c.
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