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| Author | : James Lunt |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2017-04-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 135186789X |
British military history in India has been amply documented, but From Sepoy to Subedar by Sita Ram is the only published account by an Indian soldier of his experiences serving in the East India Company’s Army. These memoirs cover a span of more than forty years of active service, and provide a fascinating insight into the lives of the Indian soldiers serving under the British.
| Author | : James Lunt |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2017-03-22 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781138243644 |
British military history in India has been amply documented, but From Sepoy to Subedar by Sita Ram is the only published account by an Indian soldier of his experiences serving in the East India Company¿s Army. These memoirs cover a span of more than forty years of active service, and provide a fascinating insight into the lives of the Indian soldiers serving under the British.
| Author | : Santanu Das |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 495 |
| Release | : 2018-09-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107081580 |
This is the first cultural and literary history of India and the First World War, with archival research from Europe and South Asia.
| Author | : Channa Wickremesekera |
| Publisher | : Manohar Publishers and Distributors |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
The eighteenth century was a time when British were just beginning to find their way in the cultural landscape of India. The early Orientalists were the pioneers who mapped out this landscape, the knowledge generated by them represented India as not only different but also inferior to the West. This perception of Indian inferiority extended to the military sphere as well. The inability of vast, yet undisciplined Indian armies to stand up to miniscule forces of drilled European infantry and field artillery convinced many in the British camp of an invincible timidity' in Indian soldiers.
| Author | : Tarak Barkawi |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 341 |
| Release | : 2017-06-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107169585 |
Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.
| Author | : Edmund Candler |
| Publisher | : London : J. Murray |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 1919 |
| Genre | : India |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Vedica Kant |
| Publisher | : Roli Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Soldiers |
| ISBN | : 9788174369796 |
"Though the Great war is widely considered to have been a primarily European conflict, it had enormous effects halfway across the world, and especially in India. Largely overlooked by Indian history textbooks, many Indian nationalists believed that supporting Britain's war effort would benefit India's move towards self-government. As a result, over a million and a half Indians were encouraged to enlist, and subsequently deployed to fight for the British."--Book jacket.
| Author | : Rudrangshu Mukherjee |
| Publisher | : Penguin Group |
| Total Pages | : 142 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
'Come out! Get ready! It's for our religion! From biting these cartridges we shall become infidels!' On a sleepy Sunday afternoon in March 1857, an agitated sepoy in the English East India Company's 34th Native Infantry marched on to the parade ground in Barrackpore, exhorting his comrades to join him in protecting their religion from the Europeans. When British officers arrived to arrest him, he drew his sword on them and then turned his musket on himself. As he was led off to the gallows a few days later, Mangal Pandey passed into history and legend as the man who single-handedly started the 1857 Rising. But who was the real Mangal Pandey? A dashing, heroic figure, as portrayed by Aamir Khan in the film The Rising? A flery patriot who embarked on a suicidal mission to defend his country's honour? Or just an ordinary sepoy who, in a state of intoxication, committed a foolhardy act for which he was hanged?Lively, thought-provoking as well as scholarly, Rudrangshu Mukherjee's analysis of this emotive episode in Indian history presents a vivid picture of life in the barracks of the East India Company's cantonments in 1857, describes the social customs and military regulations that governed the daily routines of Mangal Pandey and other Indian sepoys, and examines the controversies and unrest that foreshadowed the 1857 Rising. Uncovering the hard facts behind the myths and conjectures of popular belief, nationalist rhetoric and cinematic imagination, this book provides, for the first time, a credible portrait of Mangal Pandey as he really was.
| Author | : Saul David |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 550 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
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 | : Dean Mahomet |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2023-11-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520918517 |
This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insider/outsider in India, Ireland, and England. Emigrating to Britain and living there for over half a century, Mahomet started what was probably the first Indian restaurant in England and then enjoyed a distinguished career as a practitioner of "oriental" medicine, i.e., therapeutic massage and herbal steam bath, in London and the seaside resort of Brighton. This is a fascinating account of life in late eighteenth-century India—the first book written in English by an Indian—framed by a mini-biography of a remarkably versatile entrepreneur. Travels presents an Indian's view of the British conquest of India and conveys the vital role taken by Indians in the colonial process, especially as they negotiated relations with Britons both in the colonial periphery and the imperial metropole. Connoisseurs of unusual travel narratives, historians of England, Ireland, and British India, as well as literary scholars of autobiography and colonial discourse will find much in this book. But it also offers an engaging biography of a resourceful, multidimensional individual.
