The Revolt of 1857 was the result of a long list of grievances from the British regime. The first half of the 19th century is symptomatic of the expansion of British hegemony, not only in the ...

Thereafter a great railway system was constructed ... Bayly (Cambridge, 1988) The Peasant Armed: The Indian Revolt of 1857 edited by C. A. Bayly (Oxford, 1986) The Oriental and India Office ...

the Great Rebellion (by the Indian Historians), the Revolt of 1857, the Indian Insurrection, and the First War of Independence (by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar). The revolt spread over the entire area ...

Delhi, the Capital City of the Great Mogul', a panel from ... ‘Christmas Eve, 1857 at Christ Church, Cawnpore’, a panel from the Mutiny Scroll, British Library, Add Ms 37153.

Independence Day 1857: The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf ...

The most decisive—and of tragic consequences—was the Great Rebellion of 1857-58 (Mahabidroh) which the British mischaracterised as "Sepoy Mutiny." It was begun by the sipahis of the Bengal army.

Last week, the anniversary of the 1857 revolt did not get the same ... and then Christopher Hibbert wrote his famous book on the Great Sepoy Mutiny. This echoed tales first told by J.

covered in great detail the events of 1857, and are perhaps the only exhaustive documents existing presently which chronicle how the British press viewed the Revolt, " says Pathak. These ...

Forbes-Mitchell, in Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny, writes of Uda Devi ... They too perished in the battles in Lucknow during 1857. A particular feature of the great uprising was the ...

There are a lot of factors that amounted to the revolt of 1857, however, the most direct one was the introduction of greased cartridges by the East India Company. By this time, the East India ...