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Indian Mutiny
Indian Mutiny (1857–58) Large-scale uprising against British rule. It is known in India as the first war of independence. It began (May 10, 1857) at Meerut as a mutiny among 35,000 Indian troops (sepoys) in the Bengal army. The immediate cause was the introduction of cartridges lubricated with the fat of cows and pigs, a practice offensive to Hindus and Muslims. A more general cause was resentment at Westernization. The mutineers captured Delhi and, with the support of local maharajahs and civilians in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, the British garrison at Lucknow was besieged. On 14 September 1857, British forces recaptured Delhi and the revolt petered out. The revolt resulted in the British government taking over control of India from the
East India Company in 1858.
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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...suggests. In his hands, the mutiny is reconstructed into a combination...grubby attempt by disgruntled Indian officers to amass power and...
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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 Gautam Chakravarty. Cambridge...subaltern resistance; and lastly, writers (historical and literary, Indian, Anglo-Indian, and British) have continued to write about the Mutiny, if only...
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War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History; 9/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma. By Christopher...Herbert's grim account of the Indian Mutiny is not about greased...British regained control of their Indian "possessions". This book...British people and Christian Indians by the mutineers, then turns...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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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
; ...the British soldiers and loyal Indian troops who solemnly attended...encountered in the suppression of the Mutiny that had raged since the previous...years on, the imagery of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, in which between...tell the story of Pandey, an Indian soldier in the army of the ...
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Revisiting the Indian Mutiny
Newspaper article from: India Abroad; 11/15/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...recently published The Indian Mutiny 1857 is the descendant of an...against the intrusion into the Indian way of life, leading to fears...academics who have worked on the Indian mutiny have argued that the...affected by what happened in Indian civilian life. "My argument...the ...
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How the British Empire nearly fell There was much more to the Indian Mutiny than sensitivity over beef and pork fat, finds John Adamson
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 8/25/2002; ; 700+ words
; The Indian Mutiny 1857 by Saul David Viking, pounds 20...brightest jewel in the imperial crown: the Indian Mutiny of 1857 - the insurrection by native...theories of Victorian racialists that the Indian - for all his outward courtesy - was never...
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The Indian Mutiny 1857
Magazine article from: RUSI Journal; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; The Indian Mutiny 1857 By Saul David L20.00, 504 pages...1857-8 in Bengal and Central India. Mutiny in a standing army of professional soldiers...to any reader who is interested in the Indian sub-continent and the British Raj as...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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They wanted their own share; Britain and India.('The Indian Mutiny: 1857')
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 8/31/2002; 700+ words
; ...massacred in cold blood by Indian mutineers the previous night...reprisals. By the time the mutiny had been crushed, the British had killed many more Indians--though rarely women and...and intentions. Was it, as Indian historians tend to aver, the first war of Indian independence in which a ...
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The Indian Mutiny 1857. .(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 12/1/2002; 525 words
; The Indian Mutiny 1857. Saul David. Viking. [pounds sterling...his doctorate, with books on the Salerno mutiny and Lord Cardigan (of Light Brigade fame...became a revol t led to numerous reforms in Indian government, education and the military...
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The Indian Mutiny. Julian Spilsbury. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 6/22/2008; 511 words
; The Indian Mutiny. Julian Spilsbury. Weidenfeld &...ISBN 978-0-297-84651-2. The Indian Mutiny still reverberates after over 150...heavy-handed and lacking in respect for Indian customs. His view is that the mutiny...
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Indian Mutiny
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Indian Mutiny 1857-58, revolt that began with Indian soldiers in the Bengal army of...would end with his death. The Indian soldiers were dissatisfied with...religious toleration was decreed, and Indians were admitted to subordinate positions...
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Indian mutiny
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Indian mutiny. On 10 May 1857, sepoys of the Bengal...mutiny (by no means the first in British Indian military history) lay in attempts to impose British-style army discipline onto Indian warrior traditions—the celebrated...
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mutinies
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
mutinies, that is, open revolt by...x2013;15,000) than of mutiny (442), the former offence...purely military offence of mutiny, and most mutineers escaped...Alexandria and Port Said, to mutiny. The Greek ships, which were...occurred in March 1942 when Indian soldiers garrisoning Christmas...
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mutiny
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
mutiny an open rebellion against the proper authorities...movere ‘to move’. Mutiny on the Bounty a mutiny which took place in 1789 on the British...Islands , where they settled. See also Indian Mutiny at Indian1 .
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Indian National Army
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...Kikan (see Japan , 6) in February 1942 from Indian Army prisoners-of-war (POW) captured in the...Rani of Jhansi Regiment, which was named after an Indian heroine of the 1857 Indian Mutiny and was led by a woman doctor from Singapore...
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