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Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914-15
Magazine article from: RUSI Journal; 8/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the...politically correct retrospective analysis. The Sepoys fought for the Raj, argues Corrigan, because...especially liked the observations of wounded Sepoys on visiting England during their convalescence...
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Reasons why Indian sepoys staged mutiny
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 8/10/2000; ; 686 words
; ...Times 08-10-2000 Reasons why Indian sepoys staged mutiny Byline: K. Ram Edition...reports that agents were instigating Muslim sepoys garrisoned in the Middle East to mutiny...Records Office in Britain confirms that the sepoys in Singapore were disturbed as a result...
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A BDR officer killed and 6 sepoys injured in road accident.
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh; 5/22/2005; 387 words
; Rajshahi, May 22 (UNB) - A Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) officer was killed and six sepoys were injured as a patrol-car carrying them swerved off the road into a ditch in Bagha upazila early today (Sunday). The dead...
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Wednesday Book: An end to the myth of Indian troops' cowardice Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914- 15 by Gordon Corrigan (Spellmount, pounds 24.95)
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/16/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...decomposition added their cloying smell to that of the rotten, over- manured mud, burnt lyddite and overflowing latrine pits." Sepoys in the Trenches is not, however, the latest exercise in the literature of horror, but a sober history of the year that the...
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Sepoys, convicts and the 'bazaar' contingent: the emergence and exclusion of 'Hindustani' pioneers at the Singapore frontier.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; 2/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Within the Indian diaspora, which makes up approximately 7 per cent of Singapore's population, two subcategories emerge as particularly salient bases for community: subdivisions based on religion and ethnic differences based on place of origin. At one level the latter subcategory has adopted a
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Indian voices from the 1857 rebellion: the Indian Mutiny and Rebellion, which broke out 150 years ago this month, was the greatest revolt against British imperialism of its century. Joseph Coohill uncovers some Indian accounts of what happened and why.
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the story. Many native infantrymen (sepoys) believed that these new cartridges introduced...been greased by cow and pig fat. The sepoys were required to bite open the cartridges...based on long-standing grievances. Sepoys in the East India Company army had seen...
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Sepoy Army and the Nationalist Struggle: An imperial strike force and
Newspaper article from: India Abroad; 6/13/1997; 700+ words
; ...trained by French officers, could meet the sepoys on equal ground. However, factionalism...mountain artillery gave victory to the sepoys. Afghanistan was the Achilles' heel...range muskets) wreaked havoc among the sepoys. The field artillery, which gave the...
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The Politics of a Popular Uprising: Bundelkhand in 1857.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...played active roles in the rebellion: sepoys, rajas, thakurs, and "the people...notes the remarkable unity amongst the sepoys; she argues that "mutiny . . . does...religion as the unifying factor for the sepoys, claiming that Hindus and Muslims put...
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When bandits ruled in Kedah,NEW STRAITS TIMES
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 2/16/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Singapore, to train a group of Malays to become sepahi (Sepoys). According to Ismail, the word sepahi is Persian...use of weapons. The British called these soldiers "Sepoys". These Sepoys had been brought in by the British to serve in the...
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1857- Monuments in neglect.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 5/9/2007; 700+ words
; ...Punjab and Uttar Pradesh connected with the sepoys' struggle lie in a state of neglect...sparked off a series of revolts among the sepoys elsewhere in the country. The banyan...stand and are in use. On May 9, 1857, sepoys of a regiment at Meerut were court martialled...
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