A piece of the Lucknow Residency, besieged by Indian sepoys during the revolt of 1857, reflects how colonialism haunts modern ...

A novel, no doubt, but what no one knows is that it did refer to India’s first war of Independence. Not the Sepoy Mutiny of ...

The mutiny memorial is now called Ajitgarh ... of the British cantonment sought shelter on the afternoon of 11 May 1857, while waiting for help from Meerut. When no help came, the women tried ...

The revolt of 1857, which the British call the Indian Mutiny but many Indians prefer to think of as the First War of Independence, was the defining event in British imperial history. It came as a ...

IMAGE: The Sepoy Revolt at Meerut from the Illustrated London News, 1857. The mutiny began with the destruction of government buildings in Meerut on May 10. The peasants of the surrounding ...

The country is celebrating the 150th anniversary of what is variously termed as the First War of Independence, War of Independence of 1857, Indian Mutiny, the Great Indian Mutiny, the Sepoy Mutiny ...

When we deprecate the term ‘Mutiny’ given to the Revolt of 1857, we should not at the same time underestimate the vital role of the rebelling soldiers in the uprising. Throughout its course ...

notes, biblio., index. $120.00. ISBN: 1441177302 The “Indian Army” under the Raj Roy, author of several works on South Asian military history, here examines the “Indian Army” from the “Mutiny” of 1857 ...