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An in-depth study of the 1857 Indian mutiny-rebellion, exploring the political and social themes of this remarkable phenomenon.
Author : Clare Anderson
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 2007
Category : India
ISBN : 1843312492
An in-depth study of the 1857 Indian mutiny-rebellion, exploring the political and social themes of this remarkable phenomenon.
Author : Jill C. Bender
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316501085
Situating the 1857 Indian uprising within an imperial context, Jill C. Bender traces its ramifications across the four different colonial sites of Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, and southern Africa. Bender argues that the 1857 uprising shaped colonial Britons' perceptions of their own empire, revealing the possibilities of an integrated empire that could provide the resources to generate and 'justify' British power. In response to the uprising, Britons throughout the Empire debated colonial responsibility, methods of counter-insurrection, military recruiting practices, and colonial governance. Even after the rebellion had been suppressed, the violence of 1857 continued to have a lasting effect. The fears generated by the uprising transformed how the British understood their relationship with the 'colonized' and shaped their own expectations of themselves as 'colonizer'. Placing the 1857 Indian uprising within an imperial context reminds us that British power was neither natural nor inevitable, but had to be constructed.
Author : George Bruce Malleson
Publisher :
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 1891
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Kim A. Wagner
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2010
Category : India
ISBN : 9781906165277
The Indian Uprising of 1857 had a profound impact on the colonial psyche, and its spectre haunted the British until the very last days of the Raj. For the past 150 years most aspects of the Uprising have been subjected to intense scrutiny by historians, yet the nature of the outbreak itself remains obscure. What was the extent of the conspiracies and plotting? How could rumours of contaminated ammunition spark a mutiny when not a single greased cartridge was ever distributed to the sepoys? Based on a careful, even-handed reassessment of the primary sources, The Great Fear of 1857 explores the existence of conspiracies during the early months of that year and presents a compelling and detailed narrative of the panics and rumours which moved Indians to take up arms. With its fresh and unsentimental approach, this book offers a radically new interpretation of one of the most controversial events in the history of British India.
Author : James Frey
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
Release : 2020-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1624669050
"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 : Andrew Mangham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521760747
Accessible and comprehensive account of the sensation novel of the nineteenth century.
Author : Clare Anderson
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0857287001
This fascinating book, based on extensive archival research in Britain and India, examines why mutineer-rebels chose to attack prisons and release prisoners, discusses the impact of the destruction of the jails on British penal policy in mainland India, considers the relationship between India and its penal settlements in Southeast Asia, re-examines Britain’s decision to settle the Andaman Islands as a penal colony in 1858 and re-evaluates the experiences of mutineer-rebel convicts there. This book makes an important contribution to histories of the mutiny-rebellion, British colonial South Asia, British expansion in the Indian Ocean and incarceration and transportation.
Author : Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : 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.
Author : Alan Lester
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1108426204
Reveals how the British Empire's governing men enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world.
Author : Stephen M. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1108490123
Offers a revised and updated history of thirteen of the most significant British conflicts during the Victorian period.