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Books: The rebels who refused to bite the bullet Saul David's brilliant analysis of the uprising in India shows that it was about much more than pork grease, finds Frank McLynn
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The Indian Mutiny 1857
By Saul David
VIKING pounds 20
The Indian Mutiny of 1857 has bitterly divided historians. On the
Right are those who regard the British fightback from the brink of
disaster, and especially the heroic defence of the Lucknow Residency,
as the finest hour of the Raj, an epic of courage and defiance even
more impressive than Rorke's Drift in 1879. On the Left are those who
affect to despise the word "mutiny" and regard the rising of 1857 as
a prematur...
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Suspicious minds
The Sunday Herald
; The indian mutiny by saul david (viking, (pounds) 20) TAKE some Enfield rifle cartridges greased with animal fat. Add cultivated Hindu and Muslim soldiers fearful of breaking their faith by coming into contact with the offending ordnance and you have the recipe for the Indian Mutiny of 1857-1859.
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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.
The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ... invincibility had been progressively tarnished in the preceding years, first by the retreat from Kabul in 1842 and then by the news of British disasters in the Crimean War. The mutiny spread to the garrison towns of Cawnpore and Lucknow, where British soldiers ...
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Poppadom pioneer.(Column)
The Daily Mail (London, England)
; QUESTION Where was the UK's first curry house? DEEN Mahomed (formerly Mahomet) was born in May 1759, in Patna, Bihar, India, the younger son of an Indian officer in the East India Company's Bengal army. After a traditional Islamic education in Patna and his father's death fighting recalcitrant
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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
The Sunday Telegraph London
; The Indian Mutiny 1857 by Saul David Viking, pounds 20, 504 pp pounds 18 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE GREAT, juggernaut of 19th-century British Imperialism was rarely stopped in its tracks. Yet there was one moment when it was halted with a peremptory suddenness that threatened to dislodge
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The Worlds of the East India Company.(Book Review)
Canadian Journal of History
; The Worlds of the East India Company, edited by H.V. Bowen, Margarette Lincoln, and Nigel Rigby. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, New York, Boydell Press, 2002. xvii, 246 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $29.95 US (paper). The Worlds of the East India Company is an appropriate title for a collection of
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