English colonists besieged during the 1857 Indian Mutiny watch their Victorian certainties crumble along with their fortifications.
Books mentioned in The Siege of Krishnapur (4)
The Christian Year by John Keble: “It's Keble's _The Christian Year_, a series of poems on religious themes, perhaps you know it.”
Report on Epidemic Cholera by William Baly: “Let me now read to you the conclusion of Dr Baly in his _Report on Epidemic Cholera_, drawn up at the desire of the Royal College of Physicians and published in 1854.”
The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: “"What was that phrase of Tennyson's? '...the soft and milky rabble of womankind...!'" and later "the qualities of Tennyson's 'great, broad-shouldered, genial Englishman'" -- both lines are from Tennyson's narrative poem The Princess (1847).”
De l'Attaque et de la Défense des Places by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban: “"...the only sound that came to them was the ghostly echo of a phrase of Vauban he had read: _Place assiégée, place prise!_" -- the Collector's siege manuals are named as "the Collector's authorities, Vauban and so forth".”