How the British Empire nearly fell There was much more to the Indian Mutiny than sensitivity over beef and pork fat, finds John Adamson From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: August 25, 2002| Author: JOHN ADAMSON | Copyright 2002 The Sunday Telegraph London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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 the brightest jewel in the imperial crown: the Indian Mutiny of 1857 - the insurrection by native troops in the British army of Bengal that temporarily reclaimed Delhi as ...

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