Pass it on: The Secret that Preceded the Indian Rebellion of 1857 British officials were alarmed at the rapid distribution of mysterious Indian breads across much of the Raj. Mike Dash.

Imperial authority examined. In May 1857 soldiers of the Bengal army shot their British officers, and marched on Delhi. Their mutiny encouraged rebellion by considerable numbers of Indian ...

The 1857 capture of Delhi was planned, not a sudden uprising by ‘angry men’, said oral historian Sohail Hashmi at his talk ‘1857 Rebels Reach Delhi’ at INTACH. advertisement.

The great revolt of 1857 was a momentous struggle against colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent—the most widespread anti-colonial struggle during the nineteenth century.

But for Delhi, the Revolt of 1857, which had begun in Meerut on May 10, and had landed at its doorstep on May 11, had effectively ended. And with it ended the Mughals and the East India Company.

WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'S new book on the 1857 uprising, "The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857," has just been awarded the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography. IN EARLY MAY 1857 ...

Siege of Delhi, 1857. Delhi State Archives (Image from 'Maps of Delhi' by Pilar Maria Guerrieri; Niyogi Books).