Trevelyan's fascinating and often controversial 'letters' combine recognition of cultural relativity, the dangers of racial prejudice, and an affirmation of the Liberal imperialist's duty to govern for the 'benefit of the inhabitants of India', spreading justice, education and Christianity in the years following the conflict of 1857-1859.
Trevelyan's fictionalised letters chart the changing attitudes of an Englishman in India in the years around the 1857 1859 Mutiny.
