Through The Indian Mutiny

Author : Saul David
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015051831447

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The Indian Mutiny by Saul David Pdf

The Indian Mutiny of 1857 was the bloodiest insurrection in the history of the British Empire. It began with a large-scale uprising by native troops against their colonial masters, and soon developed into general rebellion as thousands of discontented civilians joined in. It is a tale of brutal murder and heroic resistance from which innocents on both sides could not escape. This work covers the story of the Mutiny. It challenges the accepted wisdom that a British victory was inevitable, showing just how close the mutineers came to dealing a fatal blow to the British Raj.

Author : Julian Spilsbury
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780297856306

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The Indian Mutiny by Julian Spilsbury Pdf

An epic true story of treachery, revenge and courage The Indian Mutiny is a real page-turner, an epic story with surprising modern parallels. Fomer army officer-turned-TV scriptwriter, Julian Spilsbury is the ideal author to take us back to the desperate summer of 1857 when thousands of Indian soldiers mutinied. They murdered their officers, hunted down the women and children and burned and slaughtered their way to Delhi. The tiny British garrison at Lucknow held out against all odds; the one at Cawnpore surrendered only to be betrayed and massacred. Modern Indian accounts call this 'the first war of liberation', but as Julian Spilsbury reveals, 80 per cent of the so-called 'British' forces were from the sub-continent. Sikhs, Gurkhas and Afghans fought alongside small numbers of British soldiers. Together, they faced terrible odds and won. In the process they created a new army that would play a vital role in the Allied forces in both World Wars. Julian Spilsbury weaves the story together from some of the most vivid eyewitness accounts ever written. From the women and children hiding from blood-crazed mobs, to the epic battles that decided the campaign, to the grisly revenge exacted by the British forces, this is a gripping recreation of the greatest crisis of Empire.

Author : George Bruce Malleson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015063886322

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The Indian Mutiny of 1857 by George Bruce Malleson Pdf

Author : Harold E. Raugh (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:959253628

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The Raugh Bibliography of the Indian Mutiny by Harold E. Raugh (Jr.) Pdf

Author : Charles Ball
Publisher : London ; London Printing and Pub.
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : India
ISBN : OXFORD:N11512996

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The History of the Indian Mutiny: Giving a Detailed Account of the Sepoy Insurrection in India by Charles Ball Pdf

Author : Andrew Mangham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521760744

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The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction by Andrew Mangham Pdf

Accessible and comprehensive account of the sensation novel of the nineteenth century.

Author : Rajmohan Gandhi
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788184758252

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A Tale of Two Revolts by Rajmohan Gandhi Pdf

Two wars––the 1857 Revolt in PBI - India and the American Civil War—seemingly fought for very different reasons, occurred at opposite ends of the globe in the middle of the nineteenth century. But they were both fought in a PBI - World still dominated by Great Britain and the battle cry in both conflicts was freedom. Rajmohan Gandhi brings the drama of both wars to one stage in A Tale of Two Revolts. He deftly reconstructs events from the point of view of William Howard Russell—an Irishman who was also perhaps the PBI - World’s first war correspondent—and uncovers significant connections between the histories of the United States, Britain and PBI - India. The result is a tale of two revolts, three countries and one century. Into this fascinating story Rajmohan Gandhi weaves the choices of five extraordinary inhabitants of PBI - India—Sayyid Ahmed Khan, Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar, Jotiba Phule, Allan Octavian Hume and Bankimchandra Chatterjee—and of three towering figures of PBI - World history—Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy and Abraham Lincoln—to show the continuities between the nineteenth century and the PBI - World we live in today. Scholarly, insightful and gripping, A Tale of Two Revolts raises new questions about these wars that changed the PBI - World.

Author : Sir Sayyid Aḥmad K̲h̲ān̲
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : India
ISBN : MSU:31293107631040

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The Causes of the Indian Revolt by Sir Sayyid Aḥmad K̲h̲ān̲ Pdf

Author : Christopher Herbert
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400832767

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War of No Pity by Christopher Herbert Pdf

On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain, where the uprising against British rule in India was often portrayed as a clash of civilization and barbarity demanding merciless retribution. Although by twentieth-century standards the number of victims was small, the Victorian public saw "the Indian Mutiny" of 1857-59 as an epochal event. In this provocative book, Christopher Herbert seeks to discover why. He offers a view of this episode--and of Victorian imperialist culture more generally--sharply at odds with the standard formulations of postcolonial scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of largely overlooked and often mesmerizing nineteenth-century texts, including memoirs, histories, letters, works of journalism, and novels, War of No Pity shows that the startling ferocity of the conflict in India provoked a crisis of national conscience and a series of searing if often painfully ambivalent condemnations of British actions in India both prior to and during the war. Bringing to light the dissident, disillusioned, antipatriotic strain of Victorian "mutiny writing," Herbert locates in it key forerunners of modern-day antiwar literature and the modern critique of racism.

Author : George William Forrest,Sir George Forrest
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : India
ISBN : 8120619994

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History of Indian Mutiny - 3 Vols. by George William Forrest,Sir George Forrest Pdf

Author : Sir John William Kaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : India
ISBN : MINN:31951002413501Q

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A History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-1858 by Sir John William Kaye Pdf

Author : Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : India
ISBN : 1472895398

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The Indian Mutiny, 1857-58 by Gregory Fremont-Barnes Pdf

"In the mid-19th century India was the focus of Britain's international prestige and commercial power - the most important colony in an empire which extended to every continent on the globe and protected by the seemingly dependable native armies of the East India Company. When, however, in 1857 discontent exploded into open rebellion, Britain was obliged to field its largest army in forty years to defend its 'jewel in the crown'. This book, drawing on the latest sources as well as numerous first-hand accounts, explains why the sepoy armies rose up against the world's leading imperial power, details the major phases of the fighting, including the massacres at Cawnpore and the epic sieges of Delhi and Lucknow, and examines many other aspects of this compelling, at times horrifying, subject."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : James Frey
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624669057

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The Indian Rebellion, 1857–1859 by James Frey Pdf

"Frey's concise and readable history of the Indian Rebellion is an excellent introduction to one of the most important wars of the nineteenth century. The rebellion lasted more than a year and pitted broad sections of north Indian society against the British East India Company. British victory consolidated colonial rule that would only be dislodged by twentieth-century nationalist movements. Frey provides a crystal-clear account of the causes, principal events, and consequences of the rebellion. Equally importantly, he deftly discusses why the rebellion remains controversial. Well-chosen documents add texture to the analysis. This is the best short history of the rebellion in print." —Ian Barrow, Middlebury College

Author : Kim Wagner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190911744

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The Skull of Alum Bheg by Kim Wagner Pdf

In 1963, a human skull was discovered in a pub in Kent in south-east England. A brief handwritten note stuck inside the cavity revealed it to be that of Alum Bheg, an Indian soldier in British service who was executed during the aftermath of the 1857 Uprising, or The Indian Mutiny as historians of an earlier era described it. Alum Bheg was blown from a cannon for having allegedly murdered British civilians, and his head was brought back as a grisly war-trophy by an Irish officer present at his execution. The skull is a troublesome relic of both anti- colonial violence and the brutality and spectacle of British retribution. Kim Wagner presents an intimate and vivid account of life and death in British India in the throes of the largest rebellion of the nineteenth century. Fugitive rebels spent months, even years, hiding in the vastness of the Himalayas before they were eventually hunted down and punished by a vengeful colonial state. Examining the colonial practice of collecting and exhibiting human remains, this book offers a critical assessment of British imperialism that speaks to contemporary debates about the legacies of Empire and the myth of the 'Mutiny'.

Author : Charles Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : India
ISBN : OXFORD:N11512997

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The History of the Indian Mutiny: Giving a Detailed Account of the Sepoy Insurrection in India by Charles Ball Pdf