THE SEPOY MUTINY OF 1857: INDIAN INDENTURED LABOUR AND PLANTATION POLITICS IN BRITISH GUIANA.Alapatt, George K
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 ...
The immediate cause of theIndian Revolt of 1857, or Sepoy Mutiny, was a seemingly minor change in the weapons used by the British East India Company's troops. The Company had upgraded to the new Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle, which used greased paper cartridges. In order to open the cartridges...
and we have seen in an earlier article that it was the British dethronement of the King of Oudh in February 1856 that led directly to the Sepoy revolt in May the following year. Yet although Delhi fell to the mutineers on the first day of the Mutiny, it was not until nearly a fortni...
During the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, Achmet took up arms against the British. Both he and his English wife were slain in the fighting. Their daughter was adopted by a German merchant from Calcutta. The merchant brought the girl now called Miss Warrender to Europe. Miss Warrender possessed ...
Nemo revealed himself to be Dakkar, an Indian prince who had lost his family and kingdom in the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857-58. Leaving the castaways treasure chests of Indian jewels, Nemo died from old age. Harding buried him in the Nautilus. When the island sank due to a volcanic eruption, ...
宣傳標語:The 'Gone With The Wind' of the north-west frontier of India. 電影預告 & 劇照(1) 劇情簡介 The novel tells the story of Ashton Pelham-Martyn, son of a British botanical scientist, who is born on the road shortly before the Sepoy uprising of 1857. His mother dies from childbed...
Queen Victoria of Great Britain. The Victoria Cross The Sepoy Mutiny Although William Hall was not among the 111 riflemen, seamen, and hussars who received Queen Victoria’s new award in the wake of the Crimean War, he soon gained another opportunity to prove his mettle. On the other side...
The British also had other concerns at the time, however. In 1857, theIndian Revolt(sometimes called the "Sepoy Mutiny") spread across the Indian subcontinent, drawing the British Empire's attention away from China. Once the Indian Revolt was put down, however, and theMughal Empireabolished, ...
THE SEPOY MUTINY OF 1857: INDIAN INDENTURED LABOUR AND PLANTATION POLITICS IN BRITISH GUIANA. The Indian Mutiny of 1857鈥 58 1 was relayed to the British parliament, press and people through a modernising communications network that brought Indian affairs to the imperial metropole more rapidly than...