 Complete the following phrase:  The novels of J. G. Farrell are important texts dealing with the decline of the British Empire. Farrells novel Troubles, set during the Irish War of Independence 19191921, is the first instalment in Farrells Empire Trilogy, preceding The Siege of Krishnapur and The Singapore Grip, all written during the 1970s. Although there are similar themes within the three novels most notably that of the British Empire, they do not form a sequence of storytelling. The Siege of Krishnapur was inspired by events such as the sieges of Cawnpore and 