The Sepoy Revolt
Author | : Henry Mead |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Mead |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sepoy Rebellion |
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Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1857 |
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Author | : Charles River Charles River Editors |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2017-01-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781542344494 |
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the rebellion *Includes a bibliography for further reading The British East India Company served as one of the key players in the formation of the British Empire. From its origins as a trading company struggling to keep up with its superior Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish competitors to its tenure as the ruling authority of the Indian subcontinent to its eventual hubristic downfall, the East India Company serves as a lens through which to explore the much larger economic and social forces that shaped the formation of a global British Empire. As a private company that became a non-state global power in its own right, the East India Company also serves as a cautionary tale all too relevant to the modern world's current political and economic situation. In Bengal, the region where the rebellion that would change British-Indian relations permanently took place, the Company shared power with a local nawab. The Company was given increasing responsibility, including the power to collect taxes, or Diwani, in 1773. Many have criticized this "Dual Authority" of both local Indian rulers and the rule of Company officials as allowing for greater corruption and creating anger and resentment throughout Bengal. Though a defender of Britain's contributions to India's history and economy, Kartar Lalvani calls the Company's collection of the Diwani "short-sighted greed" and charges the Company with a "horrendous blunder concerning the role of revenue collection." To the Indian people, the events of 1857 are known as the first War for Independence. For the British, the time is referred to as a mutiny, an uprising, or a rebellion. It is ironic that a similar story played out just under 100 years earlier, during the American Revolution, or as the Americans called it, the War for Independence. Whatever the moniker, in 1857, one of the Indian armies, the Bengal, mutinied. In the most cursory histories of the period, the cause of the rebellion is simply cited as an oversight, a change in the type of grease used in powder cartridges rumored to contain animal fat. This revelation horrified both Hindus and Muslims. The British response, which either failed to recognize the need to address the growing rumors or attempted to force Muslim and Hindu soldiers to use the ammunition despite their objections, made things worse. Author John McLeod explains that though the controversy over animal-greased rifle cartridges was the immediate cause of the conflict, economic, religious, and political resentment existed and had been worsening throughout 1856. He also argues that rather than the uprising being attributable to either one incident or one cause - such as concerns over attempts at religious conversion by Christian officers, anger at the British in general, or frustration over specific tax policies - the rebellion was fueled not only by those with specific complaints against the British, but by those who sought to end up on the right sight of history. McLeod argues that many Indians joined the rebellion only after the tide seemed to be turning in favor of Indian rebels: "In general, the deciding factor was whether or not such leaders felt that their interests and those of the people under their command would be best served by ending British rule." McLeod concludes that the basis of the mutiny was ultimately economic, observing that "the commercial and educated classes of Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras had prospered under Company dominance, and held back." An estimated 80,000 Indians and over 5,000 British were killed during the rebellion, often horrifically, and as British historian Percival Griffiths said of the rebellion in retrospect, "It is useless to pass judgment on these excesses on both sides. Cruelty begets cruelty, and after a certain stage of suffering and horror justice and judgment give way to the demand for vengeance."
Author | : Richard Sorsky |
Publisher | : Craven Street Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The Most Comprehensive Bibliography of the 1857 Revolt in Print--1191 Entries on the Sepoy Rebellion. Published in 2007, The Sepoy Mutiny: 1857 is the most current and authoritative collection of English language mutiny literature published since 1966. It is an essential guide for writers, collectors, dealers--any student of the 1857 revolt and its importance to the modern state of India. - 1161 entries; all books. There are no listings for newspapers or manuscript collections. - Approximately 90% of the entries were physically checked and read by the author. - Every entry lists the location of the title and many entries provide the accession number and well as a short printing history where available. - A complete index lists authors, book titles, and event or place names. The Sepoy Mutiny: 1857 is the most authoritative reference available in print.
Author | : Rajmohan Gandhi |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2009-11-06 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 8184758251 |
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 James Hope Grant |
Publisher | : Edinburgh [Midlothian] : W. Blackwood |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Generals |
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Account of regimental commander before Delhi, Cawnpore, Lucknow during Sepoy Rebellion; with remarks on clearing Oudh & Rohilkand of dissidents.
Author | : Sir John William Kaye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Author | : A. R. D. Mackenzie |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2022-06-03 |
Genre | : History |
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"Mutiny Memoirs" by A. R. D. Mackenzie is a book that reveals a rough sketch of the great Indian Mutiny such as it appeared to the eyes of a young Subaltern Officer of Native Cavalry, who had the good fortune to be engaged in its suppression. Excerpt: *In jotting down the reminiscences and sketches contained in the following pages, my aim is to record simply and truthfully certain episodes of a stirring period of Indian military history. Englishmen can never cease to be interested in the story of the great Sepoy Mutiny, and I trust that even so modest a contribution as mine to the narrative of some of its details may not be considered superfluous. Often have I been urged to give the semi-permanence of printer's ink to some story told over the walnuts and the wine"
Author | : George Bruce Malleson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Agha Humayun Amin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : India |
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