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Men without Hats - Dialogues, Discipline & Discontent in the Madras Army, 1806-1807 (Hardcover)
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Men without Hats - Dialogues, Discipline & Discontent in the Madras Army, 1806-1807 (Hardcover)
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The sepoy mutiny at Vellore in 1806 was the last major threat to
British rule in south India, but it ended scarcely eight hours
after it began. The consequences of the revolt, however, lasted
much longer, Determined to find the cause of this unexpected
mutiny, officials of the East India Company launched a sweeping
enquiry, the first of its kind to be made regarding the Indian
Army. As this new bureaucratic process of information-gathering and
procedure intruded upon the sepoys traditional world of unrecorded
negotiation and personal bonds, panic spread, causing ear-mutinies,
riots, and political witch-hunts at garrison towns across the
Madras Presidency. The British asked their sepoys many questions
during the ensuing investigations of these incidents: why did they
object to their new uniforms -- especially to the new turban, which
sepoys likened to a European topi, or hat? In what sorts of
political activities were sepoys engaged? British officials asked
these questions, making assumptions regarding the identity,
culture, and loyalty of Indian soldiers that were based primarily
on colonial myth-making -- assuming, for instance, that the sepoys
could not have planned an uprising on their own, without the aid of
external provocateurs attached to the exiled sons of Tipu Sultan.
Indeed, the task of British investigators was made extremely
difficult by the fact that the mutinous troops had been guarding
the Mysorean princes and their families, held as state prisoners at
Vellore, at the time of the rising. The real interior life and
interests of the sepoy battalions, revealed by the Vellore Mutiny
enquiries, opened up the origins, socio-political thoughts, and
daily lives of the indigenous soldiers of the Raj for the first
time, revealing an army very different from that normally imagined
by its own British officers. In Men Without Hats, all available
primary documents concerning the Vellore Mutiny have been analysed
for the first time, producing a comprehensive view of this
significant event and a conclusion that challenges previous
scholarly conceptions of the significance of the uprising.
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