The Indian 'Mutiny' of 1857 was an uprising composed of multiple conflicts, including local wars, communal violence and dacoity (banditry). Under the East India Company, landholders, villages and dacoits avoided state intrusion through local systems of mutually advantageous relationships. The unrest ...
of the Mutiny, it was not until nearly a fortnight later that a full-scale revolt broke out in Lucknow. In part, this resulted from the phenomenon known to historians as “the lull in the Mutiny,” a strange period of inactivity on the part of the mutineers which gave their opponents ...
The whole sepoy army throughout Hindustan was in a ferment. Regiments began here and there to mutiny; then on May 10, 1857, the whole of the regiments at Mirat, a great military station in the north-west provinces, mutinied, killed every European they could lay hands on, marched upon ...
Journal of Historical GeographyBlunt, A. 2000b, „Embodying war: British women and domestic defilement in the Indian „Mutiny,‟ 1857-8‟, Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 26, pp. 403-428.Alison Blunt, "Embodying War: British Women and Domestic Defilement in the Indian `Mutiny,...
The Indian Mutiny 暂无报价 0评论 编辑推荐: 内容简介:By 1857, the British East India Company was India’s de facto ruler, having won the subcontinent by subterfuge and force of arms. Discontent was rising however, and in the following spring, entire regiments of Indian troops turned on...
During the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58, the British were faced by highly professional opponents in the city of Lucknow. Soldiers were repeatedly picked off by a sniper who was positioned up a tree.When finally dislodged, the sniper was discovered to be not Indian but African and a woman at ...
theindianmutiny1857 系统标签: mutinyindianmutineerssipahisguchongcolleagues SaulDavid TheIndianMutiny:1857 Publisher:PenguinBooksLtd (September4,2003) Language:English Pages:544 ISBN:978-0141005546 Size:30.4MB Format:PDF/ePub/Kindle In"TheIndianMutiny:1857"Saul DavidexploresoneofBritain'smost harrowingcolo...
The Indian 'Mutiny' of 1857 was an uprising composed of multiple conflicts, including local wars, communal violence and dacoity (banditry). Under the East India Company, landholders, villages and dacoits avoided state intrusion through local systems of mutually advantageous relationships. The unrest ...
Almost 150 years on, the imagery of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, in which between 100,000 and 150,000 people died, is still extraordinarily lurid in its bloody horror. Jan Morris, the great popular historian of the British Empire, rightly called it 'this most horrible of imperial wars'. ...
The Indian Mutiny, Part I On May 10th, 1857, while the bells of Meerut rang for divine service, the Sepoys of the Bengal Army rose in revolt against the rule of the British East India Company. That mutiny, Jon Manchip White writes, affords brilliant glimpses of a wilful generation.J.M...