The Heroes of the Indian Rebellion
Author: David W. Bartlett
Publisher:
Published: 1859
Total Pages: 476
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Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory
Author: Astrid Erll
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 3110204444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe specific concern of this collection is linking the use of media to the larger socio-cultural processes involved in collective memory-making. The focus rests in particular on two aspects of media use: the basic dynamics of mediation and remediation. The key questions are: What role do media play in the production and circulation of cultural memories? How do mediation, remediation and intermediality shape objects and acts of cultural remembrance? How can new, emergent media redefine or transform what is collectively remembered?
The Great Indian Mutiny
Author: Richard Collier
Publisher:
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 396
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Author: Julian Spilsbury
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2008-09-18
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0297856308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn epic true story of treachery, revenge and courage The Indian Mutiny is a real page-turner, an epic story with surprising modern parallels. Fomer army officer-turned-TV scriptwriter, Julian Spilsbury is the ideal author to take us back to the desperate summer of 1857 when thousands of Indian soldiers mutinied. They murdered their officers, hunted down the women and children and burned and slaughtered their way to Delhi. The tiny British garrison at Lucknow held out against all odds; the one at Cawnpore surrendered only to be betrayed and massacred. Modern Indian accounts call this 'the first war of liberation', but as Julian Spilsbury reveals, 80 per cent of the so-called 'British' forces were from the sub-continent. Sikhs, Gurkhas and Afghans fought alongside small numbers of British soldiers. Together, they faced terrible odds and won. In the process they created a new army that would play a vital role in the Allied forces in both World Wars. Julian Spilsbury weaves the story together from some of the most vivid eyewitness accounts ever written. From the women and children hiding from blood-crazed mobs, to the epic battles that decided the campaign, to the grisly revenge exacted by the British forces, this is a gripping recreation of the greatest crisis of Empire.
The Great Fear of 1857
Author: Kim A. Wagner
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781906165277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Indian Uprising of 1857 had a profound impact on the colonial psyche, and its spectre haunted the British until the very last days of the Raj. For the past 150 years most aspects of the Uprising have been subjected to intense scrutiny by historians, yet the nature of the outbreak itself remains obscure. What was the extent of the conspiracies and plotting? How could rumours of contaminated ammunition spark a mutiny when not a single greased cartridge was ever distributed to the sepoys? Based on a careful, even-handed reassessment of the primary sources, The Great Fear of 1857 explores the existence of conspiracies during the early months of that year and presents a compelling and detailed narrative of the panics and rumours which moved Indians to take up arms. With its fresh and unsentimental approach, this book offers a radically new interpretation of one of the most controversial events in the history of British India.
Heroes of the Indian Mutiny
Author: Edward Gilliat
Publisher:
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 374
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Author: Christopher Hibbert
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages:
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Author: Moritz von Brescius
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 1108427324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA path-breaking study of national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a controversial German expedition to British India.
The Last Mughal
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2009-08-17
Total Pages: 819
ISBN-13: 1408806886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire' Daily Telegraph 'Brims with life, colour and complexity . . . outstanding' Evening Standard 'A compulsively readable masterpiece' Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of Books A stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal. In May 1857 India's flourishing capital became the centre of the bloodiest rebellion the British Empire had ever faced. Once a city of cultural brilliance and learning, Delhi was reduced to a battered, empty ruin, and its ruler – Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last of the Great Mughals – was thrown into exile. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers, neither of whom could retreat. The Last Mughal tells the story of the doomed Mughal capital, its tragic destruction, and the individuals caught up in one of the most terrible upheavals in history, as an army mutiny was transformed into the largest anti-colonial uprising to take place anywhere in the world in the entire course of the nineteenth century.
The Forgotten Army
Author: Peter Ward Fay
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9780472083428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first complete history of the Indian National Army and its fight for independence against the British in World War II.
