This study examines the eventful period of '1857 and after' in India from various theoretical, historical and sociological perspectives, and follows it up with insightful accounts of literary and cinematic representations of this period by Indian and Western scholars. Its exploration of the cultural projections of this first war of India's independence interrogates, by strong implications, the neo-colonialism and the seemingly innocuous globalization of our times in so far as they control and subjugate the weaker nations all over the world.
