Standard historical accounts of the Indian Revolt of 1857鈥 58 give the impression that superiority on the battlefield accounted for the ability of the British to defeat their Indian adversaries. Yet, to focus solely on the military campaigns ignores the intricate and multifaceted nature of the ...
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(2021). Indian Rebellion of 1857. In: Ness, I., Cope, Z. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29901-9_300501 Download citation .RIS .ENW .BIB DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29901-9_3...
While Zafar was himself a mystic, poet and calligrapher of great charm and accomplishment, his greatest achievement was perhaps to nourish the talents both of Urdu’s supreme love poet, Ghalib, and his great rival Zauq. While the British progressively took over more and more of the Empero...
Consolidation of British Power Lord Dalhousie (1848-1856) British Administrative Policy British Economic Policies Transport and Communication Land Revenue Policy Administrative Structure Judicial Organization Social and cultural Policy Social and Cultural Awakening The Revolt of 1857 Major Causes of 1857 Revolt...
Depending on the historian you ask the war of 1857 fought in British occupied India has been described as a mutiny, revolt, and a rebellion. The revolt of 1857 is considered the first step India had ever taken to try and beat the British....
to organise a revolt. There were two groups of natives who had a very strong inducement in their own history, to overthrow the British power, the Mohammedans who had been the lords of India and the Marathas who believed that they would have been the lords of India but for the British....
Consolidation of British Power Lord Dalhousie (1848-1856) British Administrative Policy British Economic Policies Transport and Communication Land Revenue Policy Administrative Structure Judicial Organization Social and cultural Policy Social and Cultural Awakening The Revolt of 1857 Major Causes of 1857 Revolt...
The Revolt of 1857 and the British raj The term sepoy refers to an Indian soldier employed by a European power. It entered English via the Portuguese sipai, derived from the Hindustani sipāhī, itself from the Persian sipahi, meaning “cavalryman.” By the 1850s, the company had ...
the Indian Mutiny took place in and around the ancient capital of the Moguls, where the last Mogul sovereign exercised a shadowy power until 1857. This is the second of three articles by Jon Manchip White on the origins and development of the nineteenth-century Indian Revolt against British ...