2008, ISBN: 9788130909240

Viva Books Private Limited, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. New. .. .. The events of 1857-58 in India are seen here through a series of untold stories or little known accounts which sho… More...

Viva Books Private Limited, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. New. .. .. The events of 1857-58 in India are seen here through a series of untold stories or little known accounts which show that they were more complex than suggested by the label ‘Indian Mutiny’ applied by British writers (who saw the events as a colonial rebellion) or ‘First War of Independence’ which is used by most Indian writers. Drawing on archival and visual 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 aftermath of the revolt and the ways in which it was commemorated are also recorded, and throughout, personal accounts convey the trauma of the dislocated times, the participant’s anxiety and desperation, the grisly bloodshed, the vast devastation- illustrating, as one Indian soldier who served in the East India Company’s army put it, ‘the wind of madness’ that swept the subcontinent. Contents: Introduction - India in 1857 • Rebels and Renegades • The Kotah Residency Murders • The Great Wall of Lucknow • The Prize Agents • ‘Hung in Perpetual Chains’ • Mutiny Memorials Printed Pages: 238., Viva Books Private Limited, 2008<

2008, ISBN: 9788130909240

Viva Books Private Limited 2008, New Hardcover . The events of 1857-58 in India are seen here through a series of untold stories or little known accounts which show that they were more co… More...

Viva Books Private Limited 2008, New Hardcover . The events of 1857-58 in India are seen here through a series of untold stories or little known accounts which show that they were more complex than suggested by the label aEUR Indian MutinyaEUR applied by British writers (who saw the events as a colonial rebellion) or aEUR First War of IndependenceaEUR which is used by most Indian writers. Drawing on archival and visual 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 aftermath of the revolt and the ways in which it was commemorated are also recorded, and throughout, personal accounts convey the trauma of the dislocated times, the participantaEUR s anxiety and desperation, the grisly bloodshed, the vast devastation- illustrating, as one Indian soldier who served in the East India CompanyaEUR s army put it, aEUR the wind of madnessaEUR that swept the subcontinent. Contents: Introduction - India in 1857 aEURc Rebels and Renegades aEURc The Kotah Residency Murders aEURc The Great Wall of Lucknow aEURc The Prize Agents aEURc aEUR Hung in Perpetual ChainsaEUR aEURc Mutiny Memorials Printed Pages: 238. First edition, [Great Uprising in IndiaRosie Llewellyn-Jones9788130909240]<

2008, ISBN: 9788130909240

Viva Books ,2008 ,New Delhi, ; Hardbound, [Others]

2008, ISBN: 9788130909240

; Hardbound, [Others], Viva Books ,2008 ,New Delhi