Awadh In Revolt 1857 1858
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Author | : Rudrangshu Mukherjee |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 1843310759 |
The revolt of 1857 continues to arouse interest and debate. This book, first published in 1984 and now in paperback for the first time, remains one of the best studies of popular resistance and peasant rebellion. This revised edition features a new introduction, which provides an update on the historiography of peasant revolt. The author also charts some of these changes and their relevance to a deeper understanding of the uprising of 1857.
Author | : Rudrangshu Mukherjee |
Publisher | : Orient Blackswan |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9788178240275 |
Author | : James Frey |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2020-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1624669050 |
"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 | : Gregory Fremont-Barnes |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2014-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472810317 |
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.
Author | : Stephen M. Miller |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2021-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108490123 |
Offers a revised and updated history of thirteen of the most significant British conflicts during the Victorian period.
Author | : Rudrangshu Mukherjee |
Publisher | : India Allen Lane |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2021-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780670090662 |
Author | : Alan Lester |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2021-01-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108426204 |
Reveals how the British Empire's governing men enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world.
Author | : Lady Julia Selina Thesiger Inglis |
Publisher | : London : James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Company |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Kim Wagner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2018-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190911743 |
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 | : Rosie Llewellyn-Jones |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843833042 |
A volume in the Worlds of the East India Company series, edited by Huw Bowen The events of 1857-58 in India are seen here through a series of untold stories which show that they were much more complex than hitherto thought. Drawing on sources in Britain and India, including contemporary East India Company records, together with oral memories from India illustrated with a number of nineteenth century photographs, the author tells of the murder of the British Resident in the princely state of Kotah; of Indians who opposed the Mutiny, and suffered at the hands of the "mutineers"; of a small, but significant, number of Europeans who fought with the Indians against the British; and of the infamous "prize agents" of the East India Company - licensed looters whose rapacity seemed limitless. The book conveys vividly what it was like for different kinds of participants to live through these traumatic events, bringing to life their anxiety and desperation, the grisly bloodshed, and the vast devastation - illustrating overall, as one Indian soldier who served in the East India Company's army put it, "the wind of madness". Dr ROSIE LLEWELLYN-JONES is author and editor of numerous books on India, including The Nawabs, the British and the City of Lucknow (1985) and Portraits of the Indian Princes (forthcoming).