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Book Synopsis Unrecorded Chapter Indian Mutiny by : Reginald Garton Wilberforce
Download or read book Unrecorded Chapter Indian Mutiny written by Reginald Garton Wilberforce and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cult of a Dark Hero by : Stuart Flinders
Download or read book Cult of a Dark Hero written by Stuart Flinders and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1857, a member of a religious sect killed himself on hearing the news that the object of his devout observance, Nikal Seyn, had died. Nikal Seyn was, in fact, John Nicholson, the leader of the British assault that recovered Delhi at the turning-point of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. What was it about Nicholson that prompted such devotion, not just from his religious followers, but from the general public? And why is he no longer considered a hero? The man called 'The Lion of the Punjab' by his contemporaries and compared to General Wolfe of Quebec, and even to Napoleon, has in recent times been dubbed 'an imperial psychopath' and 'a homosexual bully'. Yet his was a remarkable tale of a life of adventure lived on the very edge of the British Empire; of a man who was as courageous as he was ruthless, as loyal to his friends as he was merciless to those who crossed him. But it is also the story of how modern attitudes to race and Empire have changed in the years since he died. Previously unpublished material, including the diaries of contemporaries and personal letters, helps build a new perspective on Nicholson's personality. The book considers his sexuality and ambivalent attitude towards religion. It traces his murderous thoughts towards the Chief Commissioner of the Punjab, John Lawrence, and reveals that, remarkably, the Nikal Seyni cult continued into the 21st century. This is the first book-length biography of Nicholson for over 70 years. A new account of the Irish soldier who became an Indian God, an examination of the cult of a dark hero, is long overdue.
Book Synopsis An Unrecorded Chapter of the Indian Mutiny by : Reginald Garton Wilberforce
Download or read book An Unrecorded Chapter of the Indian Mutiny written by Reginald Garton Wilberforce and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination by : Gautam Chakravarty
Download or read book The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination written by Gautam Chakravarty and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gautam Chakravarty explores representations of the event which has become known in the British imagination as the 'Indian Mutiny' of 1857 in British popular fiction and historiography. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources including diaries, autobiographies and state papers, Chakravarty shows how narratives of the rebellion were inflected by the concerns of colonial policy and by the demands of imperial self-image. He goes on to discuss the wider context of British involvement in India from 1765 to the 1940s, and engages with constitutional debates, administrative measures, and the early nineteenth-century Anglo-Indian novel. Chakravarty approaches the mutiny from the perspectives of postcolonial theory as well as from historical and literary perspectives to show the extent to which the insurrection took hold of the popular imagination in both Britain and India. The book has a broad interdisciplinary appeal and will be of interest to scholars of English literature, British imperial history, modern Indian history and cultural studies.
Book Synopsis The Indian Mutiny 1857–58 by : Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Download or read book The Indian Mutiny 1857–58 written by Gregory Fremont-Barnes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-19th century India was the focus of Britain's international prestige and commercial power - the most important colony in an empire which extended to every continent on the globe and protected by the seemingly dependable native armies of the East India Company. When, however, in 1857 discontent exploded into open rebellion, Britain was obliged to field its largest army in forty years to defend its 'jewel in the crown'. This book, drawing on the latest sources as well as numerous first-hand accounts, explains why the sepoy armies rose up against the world's leading imperial power, details the major phases of the fighting, including the massacres at Cawnpore and the epic sieges of Delhi and Lucknow, and examines many other aspects of this compelling, at times horrifying, subject.
Book Synopsis Index Catalogue of the Woodside District Library by : Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries. Woodside District Library
Download or read book Index Catalogue of the Woodside District Library written by Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries. Woodside District Library and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Early Writings on India by : H.K. Kaul
Download or read book Early Writings on India written by H.K. Kaul and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive list of all the books on India, written in English before 1900. It is an invaluable reference source on India of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Apart from the work of professional writers, there are the writings of a cross-section of society from soldiers to scientists. We find dictionaries of obscure dialects written by government officials, descriptions of their travels by visiting clerics, homely details of everyday life by housewives, as well as technical and scientific works written by scholars.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Minneapolis Public Library by : Minneapolis Public Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Minneapolis Public Library written by Minneapolis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Finding List of the Minneapolis Public Library by : Minneapolis Public Library
Download or read book Finding List of the Minneapolis Public Library written by Minneapolis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bulletin of the Hartford Public Library by : Hartford Public Library
Download or read book The Bulletin of the Hartford Public Library written by Hartford Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Second Supplement to the Catalogue (issued in 1884.) of the Circulating and a Portion of the Intermediate Departments by : Worcester Free Public Library
Download or read book Second Supplement to the Catalogue (issued in 1884.) of the Circulating and a Portion of the Intermediate Departments written by Worcester Free Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Red Fort written by James Leasor and published by James Leasor Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year after the Crimean War ended, an uprising broke out in India which was to have equal impact on the balance of world power and the British Empire's role in world affairs. The revolt was against the East India Company which, not entirely against its will, had assumed responsibility for administering large parts of India. The ostensible cause of the mutiny sprang from a rumour that cartridges used by the native Sepoy troops were greased with cow's fat and pig's lard —cows being sacred to the Hindus, and pigs abhorred by the Mohammedans. But the roots of the trouble lay far deeper, and a bloody and ineptly handled war ensued. The Red Fort is a breathtaking account of the struggle, with all its cruelties, blunderings and heroic courage. When peace was finally restored, the India we know today began to emerge. "This is a battle piece of the finest kind, detailed, authentic and largely written from original documents. Never has this story of hate, violence, courage and cowardice been better told." The New York Times
Book Synopsis The Growth and Development of National Thought in India by : Ishwara Topa
Download or read book The Growth and Development of National Thought in India written by Ishwara Topa and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John Nicholson, the Lion of the Punjaub by : R. E. Cholmeley
Download or read book John Nicholson, the Lion of the Punjaub written by R. E. Cholmeley and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the biography of Brigadier General John Nicholson, the famed Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army who rose to prominence on account of his military exploits for the Empire in British India. Nicholson's most defining moment in his career was his crucial role in suppressing the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a conflict in which he died. The book traces his life as a soldier beginning with his short stint in Afghanistan, where he took part in the First Anglo-Afghan War, prior to moving to India.
Download or read book Soldier Sahibs written by Charles Allen and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India's north-west frontier, which in the late 1990s forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Known collectively as Henry Lawrence's Young Men, each had distinguished himself in the East India Company's wars in the Punjab in the 1840s before going out to carve out names for themselves as politicals on the frontier. Drawing extensively on the men's diaries, journals and letters, Charles Allen weaves the individual stories of these Soldier Sahibs together with the tale of how they came together to save British India, ending climatically on Delhi Ridge in 1857.
Book Synopsis Finding List by : Saint Paul Public Library
Download or read book Finding List written by Saint Paul Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Penguin 1857 Reader by : Pramod K. Nayar
Download or read book The Penguin 1857 Reader written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: However infamous the conduct of the sepoys, it is only the reflex, in a concentrated form, of England's own conduct in India . . . Karl Marx 1857 was a defining moment in the history of the British Empire. As native troops in India -rebelled against their colonial masters and were joined by a large number of local chiefs, civilians and princes, the Empire almost lost its most prized territory. A hundred and fifty years later, scholars, academics and historians still argue about the exact nature of the uprising and the appropriate nomenclature for it: the First War of Independence, the Great Indian Mutiny, the Sepoy Rebellion. Debates still rage over its causes. Did it really originate from a dispute over greased cartridges? Was it premeditated? t surprisingly, the -uprising attracted both local and global attention and produced a massive archive of documents. The Penguin 1857 Reader depicts the historic event from various perspectives: English, Indian, European and American. Through a selection of documents of the time, it provides glimpses into the actions across northern India, maps the contours of dissent against the Raj and explores the immediate responses to the upheaval in India and outside. Included here are numerous newspaper and magazine accounts in leading English and American papers, chronicles of British and Indian men and women who witnessed the turmoil, intelligence reports and narratives of soldiers, the British administration's responses, the opinions of Karl Marx, Lord Macaulay and Mark Twain, British views on the Rani of Jhansi and Nana Saheb, and Mirza Ghalib's moving narration in his diaries and the historic trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar. With a scholarly and comprehensive introduction, this reader captures the many dimensions of one of the most momentous episodes in the history of the Indian subcontinent.