The Great Uprising in India, 1857-58
Subtitle: Untold Stories, Indian and British (Worlds of the East India Company) (Worlds of the East India Company)
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: July 19, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781843833048
Subjects: History; History - General History; History: World; India; Asia - India; Europe - Great Britain - General; World - Colonial Studies; History / Asia; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Asia - India & South Asia
Description: Drawing on sources in Britain and India, including contemporary East India Company records, together with oral memories from India illustrated with a number of nineteenth century photographs, the author tells of the murder of the British Resident in the princely state of Kotah; of Indians who opposed the Mutiny, and suffered at the hands of the "mutineers"; of a small, but significant, number of Europeans who fought with the Indians against the British; and of the infamous "prize agents" of the East India Company - licensed looters whose rapacity seemed limitless. --from publisher description.