The Raugh Bibliography of the Indian Mutiny: 1857-1859 - Softcover

Raugh Jr, Harold E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910777218 ISBN 13: 9781910777213

Publisher: Helion and Company, 2016

Synopsis

The Indian Mutiny was a series of generally unconnected military revolts of native Indian soldiers, frequently accompanied by bloody atrocities and suppressed by the British with equal savagery, against the rule and authority of the East India Company. Itwas also perhaps the inevitable clash of British 'civilization' with Indian customs, traditions, and religion. This conflict definitely shocked the British, and it was a pivotal event in British imperial and military, as well as Indian, history. The Indian Mutiny broke out on 10 May 1857, and it did not officially end until 8 July 1859. The Mutiny itself can be divided into a number of campaigns. The first campaign consisted of the siege and capture of Delhi (June-September 1857). The second was the campaign in Oudh, including the defence of the Lucknow Residency (July-November 1857); the September and November 1857 reliefs of Lucknow; the defence (June 1857) and the three battles of Cawnpore (July, November, and December 1857); the final capture of Lucknow in March 1858; and the pacification of Oudh and Rohilkand (Apri-June 1858). Operations in Central India were conducted in two phases, from June-November 1857 and January-June 1858. The Battle of Gwalior, 19 June 1858, was the last major engagement of the Indian Mutiny. Final mopping up operations took place from July 1858 until May 1859. Indian Mutiny, 1857-1859: A Selected Bibliography is a comprehensive and authoritative research guide and bibliographic platform that identifies and frequently annotates thousands of contemporary, current, and hard-to-find English- and foreign-language books, journal articles, government documents, academic studies, and unpublished personal papers and diaries on all aspects of the Indian Mutiny. Arranged chronologically and topically, chapters cover general Indian history, British imperialism, the East India Company, and its army; the causes of the Indian Mutiny and key Indian leaders (Nana Sahib, Rani of Jhansi, Tantia Topi, an

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The research involved in finding and cataloguing such an enormous mass of material is highly impressive...Raugh has shown considerable acumen, remarkable attention to detail, and incredible patience to collect and review all that has been written and published about such a complex and controversial period of history. In this he succeeds in creating his 'treasure trove'. It will be of great interest to specialists working in the field. --Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research

Must be considered the definitive, and possibly final, printed bibliography of the Mutiny... An outstanding work and will be an invaluable source of reference to any student of the period 1857-1859. --Durbar: Journal of the Indian Military Historical Society

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Harold E. Raugh, Jr., currently serves as Chief Historian, Defense Logistics Agency, U.S. Department of Defense, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He previously served as the Command Historian, U.S. Army V Corps, in Germany, from 2006 to 2013, and as the Command Historian, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and Presidio of Monterey, California, from 2002 to 2006. Dr. Raugh retired from the U.S. Army in 1998 as a lieutenant colonel after twenty years' service as an infantry officer. He served on active duty in the United States; West Berlin; South Korea; the Persian Gulf; with the United Nations in Israel, Egypt, and Jordan; in Saudi Arabia; and as a NATO detachment commander in the former Yugoslavia. He also served as an Assistant Professor of History at the United States Military Academy, West Point, as well as at the Pentagon and at the National Security Agency. Dr. Raugh, who received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), served as an Adjunct Professor of Military History and National Security Studies, American Military University, Manassas Park, Virginia, from 2000 to 2004. Dr. Raugh is the author or editor of fourteen military history books (and some 800 published articles and book reviews), including the highly-acclaimed Wavell in the Middle East, 1939–1941: A Study in Generalship (London: Brassey’s, 1993; reprint, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013); The Victorians at War, 1815–1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2004); and two authoritative Victorian military bibliographies: British Military Operations in Egypt and the Sudan (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2008) and Anglo-Zulu War, 1879 (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2011). An internationally-recognized expert on British military history and leadership, Dr. Raugh was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the United Kingdom in 2001, a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society in 2010, and a member of the British Commission for Military History.

About this edition

• Publisher: Helion and Company
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1910777218
• ISBN 13: 9781910777213
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 904