Author: G B Malleson
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 288
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129107902
Description
The causes remain many but rather elusive, the consequences even more so-did it ring the death toll of the British Empire, was it a mere speck of exaggerated trouble.
This book serves as a tremendous gap-filler and demystifying agent. It begins with a background of the building of the British Raj in India, a move not deliberate but powerful enough to shape history for decades to come. The author delves in great detail into the causes of the Mutiny, unlike preceding writes who mostly concentrated on the consequences. Through personal knowledge and observation he attempts to in-point that latent power that drove the mutiny on. He gives a realistic account of all the important operations that took place, praising the heroic and criticizing the undeserving. He is careful not to overlay his work with too much tedious detail, so his writing remains lucid and interesting.
The Indian Mutiny of 1857 captures successfully and uncompromisingly an event that was perhaps disorganized but large in scale, dealing with each individual area separately, analysing the causes and effects locally and nation-wide. It captures the spirit of the time, its people who fought and died, the attitudes of the Raj that was gradually losing control of its Empire.
Contents
INTRODUCTORY
The Conspirators
The First Mutterings of the Storm
The Spread of the Epidemic
Barrackpur, Calcutta and the North-west to the 9th of May
The Revolt at Mirath and the Seizure of Delhi
The Effect, Throughout India, of the Seizure of Dehli
The Progress of the Insurrection in the North-west in May and June
The March to Dehli
Kanhpur, Lakhnao, and Allahabad
Calcutta in June and July
The Leaguer of Kanhpur
Neill at Banaras and Allahabad-Havelock’s Recovery of Kanhpur
The Residency at Lakhnao after Chinhat-Havelock’s First Attempts to Relieve It
Calcutta and Western Bihar in July and August
The First Relief of the Lakhnao residency
The Leaguer of Agra
Events in the Sagar and Narbada Territories, Central India, Rajputana, the Mirath
Districts, Rohilkhand, and the Panjab
The Siege and Storming of Dehli
From Dehli to Agra and Kanhpur-Sir Colin Campbell at Kanhpur
The Second Relief of the Lakhnao Residency-Windham and the Gwaliar Contingent
Sir Colin Campbell Recovers the Duab
Eastern Bengal, Eastern Bihar, Azamgarh, Allahabad, and Eastern Oudh
The Storming of Lakhnao
Azamgarh-Recongquest of Rohilkhand, of Oudh, of the Azamgarh and Western Bihar Districts
Western and Central India
The Last Embers of the Revolt
CONCLUSION