Etawah
Etawah , city (1991 pop. 124,072), Uttar Pradesh state, N central India, on the Yamuna River and the Delhi-Kanpur railroad. It is a district administrative center and a market for grain, oilseed, handloom fabrics, and ghee (clarified butter). The town was held by the Rajputs from the 12th to the 16th cent., when it became the seat of a Muslim governor. In the 17th cent. it was a banking and commercial center. Etawah was occupied by rebels during the 1857 Indian Mutiny against the British.
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
|
Africans in the Indian Mutiny: for centuries, Africans were shipped to the Indian subcontinent and sold as slaves to regional rulers. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones tells the story of those who went to Lucknow to serve the Nawab of Oudh and who joined the Indian Mutiny when he was deposed by the British. For this allegiance their descendants, whom she has traced, still pay a price.
Magazine article from: History Today; 12/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] During the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58, the British were...against the British during the Indian Mutiny (also known as the Indian Uprising...Company, which lies in today's Uttar Pradesh. The two events, annexation...
|
|
|
Duel in the crown: Charlotte Crow describes how a recent visit to India on the 150th anniversary of the Indian Mutiny became a flashpoint for Indians and Britons over the commemoration by the two nations.(CROSS CURRENT)
Magazine article from: History Today; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...emanating from Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh, but also manifest in Agra and Gwalior...anniversary tour called 'Exploring the Indian Mutiny' organized by Palanquin Traveller...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Indian Mutiny, or Uprising, marked a bloody juncture...
|
|
|
School of Shariah: Edna Fernandes visits a madrassa in northern India founded in the wake of the Indian Mutiny. One of the first Islamic fundamentalist schools, its influence has spread into Pakistan and Afghanistan, among the Taliban and followers of Osama bin Laden.
Magazine article from: History Today; 2/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...resonates around the globe. In 1866, nine years after the Indian Mutiny in which the British crushed the insurgency of Muslim and...based in the nondescript town of Deoband, in what is today Uttar Pradesh. The madrassa's spiritual ideology was forged in the fires...
|
|
|
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
; ...events and talked with many people, including native soldiers. He describes meeting two soldiers near Mau (in modern-day Uttar Pradesh) in late February or early March 1857. In his tale (written in 1884) we can see that the rumours of a rebellion started...
|
|
Book reviews: The Indian Mutiny 1857: The Indian mutiny and the bounty
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; The Indian Mutiny 1857 Saul David Viking, GBP 20 DURING the Indian Mutiny, native mercenaries caught and found guilty of...civilised' British Empire. Yet Saul David, in The Indian Mutiny 1857, tells us that "it was a punishment first...
|
|
The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination.(Book review)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination. By...as their nominal subject. In The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination, Gautam...resistance." I was eager to read The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination, since...
|
|
War of no pity; the Indian Mutiny and Victorian trauma.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008; 477 words
; 9780691133324 War of no pity; the Indian Mutiny and Victorian trauma. Herbert, Christopher...cultural reaction to the events of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 (also known as the Sepoy Rebellion...Tale of Two Cities), he finds the Indian Mutiny to represent a spot of disillusionment...
|
 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
|
BLOODLUST OF THE MUTINEERS; A Lottery-funded film on the Indian Mutiny shows the rebels as heroes - and (surprise, surprise) the British as sadists. In fact, the mutineers were ruthless butchers who massacred women, children and even their own countrymen with savage zeal.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 8/27/2005; 700+ words
; ...Almost 150 years on, the imagery of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, in which between 100,000...ruled India and the real causes of the Indian Mutiny. And what makes the anti-British...150,000 from Lottery funds. The Indian Mutiny started in May 1857 in the town of...
|
|
|
Britannia's Victorian War artist: Mark Bryant looks at the work of the Punch artist whose drawings symbolized British anger over the Indian Mutiny and established his own reputation.(BEHIND THE LINES)(Sir John Tenniel)
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; THE INDIAN MUTINY of 1857-58 was a bloody wake...summed up British anger over the Indian Mutiny and was reissued as a popular print...immediate impact of meaning.' The Indian Mutiny of 1857 began as a minor revolt in...
|
|
The Indian Mutiny. Julian Spilsbury. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 6/22/2008; 490 words
; The Indian Mutiny. Julian Spilsbury. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]20.00. 373 pages. ISBN 978-0-297-84651-2. The Indian Mutiny still reverberates after over 150 years. In this new study the author...
|
|
Etawah
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Etawah , city (1991 pop. 124,072), Uttar Pradesh state, N central India...Muslim governor. In the 17th cent. it was a banking and commercial center. Etawah was occupied by rebels during the 1857 Indian Mutiny against the British.
|
|
Āryabhaṭa I
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...s text and commentary were reprinted and translated into Hindi by Udaya N ā r ā yana Singh (Madhurapur, Etawah, 1906). A new edition of the text, with the commentary of N ī laka ṇ ṭ ha Somasutvan (who...
|
