Author: Great Britain. India Office
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Banda and Kirwee Booty ...: Despatches from the London Gazette; Diary of Lord Canning; Extracts from returns of papers relative to the mutiny in India
Author: Great Britain. India Office
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn
Author: Lincoln's Inn (London, England). Library
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Guide to the Records of the India Office Military Department, 10R L/MIL & L/WS
Author: Anthony Farrington
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Incorporated Law Society
Author: Law Society (Great Britain). Library
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde
Author: Archibald Forbes
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Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Historical Records of the 32nd (Cornwall) Light Infantry
Author: G. C. Swiney
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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The Bengal Army and the Outbreak of the Indian Mutiny
Author: Saul David
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ISBN: 9788173047800
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 399
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In 1857 the Indian troops of the Bengal Army rose against their colonial masters. They were quickly joined by tens of thousands of discontented civilians in what was to become the bloodiest insurrection in the history of the British Empire. For much of the last century, Indian and British scholars downplayed the importance of professional grievances in their accounts of why the military insurrection of 1857 took place. Most viewed the Bengal sepoys as uniformed peasants who were affected by the same social, economic and religious concerns as their civilian counterparts. They tended to identify the defence of caste and religion as the key to the military uprising, while regarding the latter as little more than a precursor to a general revolt. Yet this study's identification of professional concerns as the essential cause of the Indian Mutiny is very much in line with the recent historiography of military revolts. All armies have grievances relating to conditions of service, particularly pay, career prospects and relations with officers. What set a colonial force like the Bengal Army apart is that it was a volunteer mercenary force officered by men of a different race and religion. Its loyalty to its paymasters, therefore, was entirely dependent on the incentives for service outweighing the disincentives. David argues that by 1857 this was no longer the case: primarily because the number and seriousness of the sepoys grievances was increasing, while the Bengal Armys control over its soldiers was weakening.
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ISBN: 9788173047800
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 399
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In 1857 the Indian troops of the Bengal Army rose against their colonial masters. They were quickly joined by tens of thousands of discontented civilians in what was to become the bloodiest insurrection in the history of the British Empire. For much of the last century, Indian and British scholars downplayed the importance of professional grievances in their accounts of why the military insurrection of 1857 took place. Most viewed the Bengal sepoys as uniformed peasants who were affected by the same social, economic and religious concerns as their civilian counterparts. They tended to identify the defence of caste and religion as the key to the military uprising, while regarding the latter as little more than a precursor to a general revolt. Yet this study's identification of professional concerns as the essential cause of the Indian Mutiny is very much in line with the recent historiography of military revolts. All armies have grievances relating to conditions of service, particularly pay, career prospects and relations with officers. What set a colonial force like the Bengal Army apart is that it was a volunteer mercenary force officered by men of a different race and religion. Its loyalty to its paymasters, therefore, was entirely dependent on the incentives for service outweighing the disincentives. David argues that by 1857 this was no longer the case: primarily because the number and seriousness of the sepoys grievances was increasing, while the Bengal Armys control over its soldiers was weakening.
Freedom Struggle in Uttar Pradesh: Awadh: 1857-59
Author: Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : India
Languages : en
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The Indian Mutiny
Author: Saul David
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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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.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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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.
Travels in India
Author: Leopold von Orlich
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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