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The Great Uprising in India, 1857-58 - Untold Stories, Indian and British (Hardcover)
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The Great Uprising in India, 1857-58 - Untold Stories, Indian and British (Hardcover)
Series: Worlds of the East India Company
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The events of the 1857-8 uprising in India as seen through the eyes
of British and Indian eye-witnesses, giving a vivid picture of life
in the midst of what one called 'the wind of madness.' A volume in
the Worlds of the East India Company series, edited by Huw Bowen
The events of 1857-58 in India are seen here through a series of
untold stories which show that they were much more complex than
hitherto thought.Drawing on sources in Britain and India, including
contemporary East India Company records, together with oral
memories from India illustrated with a number of nineteenth century
photographs, the author tells of the murder of the British Resident
in the princely state of Kotah; of Indians who opposed the Mutiny,
and suffered at the hands of the "mutineers"; of a small, but
significant, number of Europeans who fought with the Indians
against the British;and of the infamous "prize agents" of the East
India Company - licensed looters whose rapacity seemed limitless.
The book conveys vividly what it was like for different kinds of
participants to live through these traumatic events, bringing to
life their anxiety and desperation, the grisly bloodshed, and the
vast devastation - illustrating overall, as one Indian soldier who
served in the East India Company's army put it, "the wind of
madness". Dr ROSIE LLEWELLYN-JONES is author and editor of numerous
books on India, including The Nawabs, the British and the City of
Lucknow (1985) and Portraits of the Indian Princes (forthcoming).
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