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Author | : Blair B. Kling |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1512803502 |
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Saul David |
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Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
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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 | : George Bruce Malleson |
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Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1857 |
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 | : George Dangerfield |
Publisher | : New York : Harcourt, Brace & Company |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : Cawnpore |
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Author | : George Bruce Malleson |
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : John Masters |
Publisher | : Penguin Books India |
Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 0143064339 |
Author | : Andrew Mangham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2013-10-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521760747 |
Accessible and comprehensive account of the sensation novel of the nineteenth century.
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.