India, 1857--the year of the great mutiny, when muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of j. Farrell's, widely considered one of the finest British n...India, 1857--the year of the great mutiny, when muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of j. Farrell's, widely considered one of the finest British novels of the last fifty years.