Author: Sir John William Kaye
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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Author: James Frey
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1624669050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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"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
ISBN: 1472810317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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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: Harold E. Raugh (Jr.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Rajmohan Gandhi
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184758251
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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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: George Bruce Malleson
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1843310759
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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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: Sir John William Kaye
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Author: Thomas Rice Holmes
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Author: Clare Anderson
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1843312492
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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An in-depth study of the 1857 Indian mutiny-rebellion, exploring the political and social themes of this remarkable phenomenon.