Author: Shireen Moosvi
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Shireen Moosvi
Publisher: Tulika
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 146
ISBN/UPC (if available): 81-89487-44-2
Description
The Revolt of 1857 is being increasingly recognized as one of the major events of the nineteenth century, a turning point in the history of imperialism. The sheer scale of the uprising and its unique place in the narrative of anti-colonial resistance has prompted it to be interpreted on several occasions in the past – by nationalist leaders, historians and officials – and the literature on 1857 has grown in volume as the country observed its 150th anniversary.
Recently, there has been an increasing awareness of the need to study, in detail, the ideas of the Rebels regarding their own cause, the varied composition of their ranks and the different understandings of their legacy. The essays in this volume have been written essentially in response to this need, by scholars who have sought to explore much hitherto neglected material on that event. Readers will find much that is refreshing and provocative in this volume, and will get glimpses into the minds of the Rebels who belonged to different areas and classes, as well as their organizational capabilities and the problems they confronted during the Great Revolt
Contents
Preface
Elegy: 1857 BAHADUR SHAH ‘ZAFAR’
Introduction SHIREEN MOOSVI
The Coming of 1857
IRFAN HABIB
The Coming of the Revolt in Awadh: The Evidence of Urdu Newspapers
FARUQUI ANJUM TABAN
Rebel Press, Delhi 1857 SHIREEN MOOSVI
The Rebel Administration of Delhi IQBAL HUSAIN
The profile of a Saintly Rebel: Maulavi Ahmadullah Shah
SAIYID ZAHEER HUSAIN JAFRI
The Gwalior Contingent in 1857-58: The Organization and Ideology of the Sepoy Rebels
IQTIDAR ALAM KHAN
The Tribals and the 1857 Uprising
K.S. SINGH
Popular Culture and 1857: A Memory against Forgetting
BADRI NARAYAN
1857: The Need for Alternative Sources
PANKAJ TAG
Contemporary Drawings of the Events of the Rebellion of 1857
S.P. VERMA
1857 and the “Renaissance” in Hindi Literature
RAMESH RAWAT
Religion in the History of 1857
FARHAT HASAN
Index