In June 1857 rebellious Indians besieged the cities of Cawnpore,
Delhi and Lucknow, instigating one of the most serious
insurrections suffered by any British colonial government. British
soldiers were executed after being given promise of safe passage,
innocent women and children suffered the same fate on surrender.
Only after bitter struggle was the mutiny suppressed by the end of
the year and subsequently the administrative powers of the East
India company reverted to the safe-keeping of the crown. Hibbert
describes these dramatic events in a thoroughly researched and
beautifully written book which provides a splendid evocation of
British India in the 19th-century. There are vivid and often
amusing portraits of the characters who ran the country and moving
evocations of the conditions which inspired their subjects to risk
all. (Kirkus UK)
When in 1857 the Indian soldiers of the British East India Company's Bengal Army rose against their officers, the Raj teetered on the brink of collapse. The Mutiny lasted over a year. In his superbly-researched study of the Great Mutiny, Christopher Hibbert brings to life the terrible realities of massacre and insurrection.
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