The Great Uprising in India, 1857-58: Untold Stories, Indian and British (Worlds of the East India Company) - Hardcover

Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843833042 ISBN 13: 9781843833048

Publisher: Boydell Press, 2007

Synopsis

Covers the events of 1857-58 in India through a series of stories. This title covers topics including, the murder of the British Resident in the princely state of Kotah; Indians who opposed the Mutiny, and suffered at the hands of the 'mutineers'; and a small, but significant, number of Europeans who fought with the Indians against the British.

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Review:

Full of fascinating information and engagingly written. HUGH PURCELL, HISTORY TODAY
[An] original and less Anglo-centric view of history. DAILY TELEGRAPH
[An] eminently readable book. [.] Even those familiar with the well worn stories of the 1857-58 period will, I think, find much of interest here that will be new to them. Highly recommended. DURBAR
A good read, and even those already steeped in the subject will find a lot to interest them. CHOWKIDAR
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones has spent years in the archives digging up forgotten corners of the history of relations between the British and the Indians, and she is the leading and much revered authority on Nawabi Lucknow. The Great Uprising, like all her works, is full of new and original material, engagingly presented and amusingly written. Her fascinating work deserves to be much better known and more widely read than it currently is. WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
An unconventional look at the Red Year of 1857 by someone who knows her stuff -- and who is not afraid to take her own line on a bloody episode of British and Indian history that still raises hackles. - Charles Allen, author of Plain Tales from the Raj
A worthy companion to any good collection of scholarly works on this subject. ...Many readers who deem themselves sufficiently familiar with the great uprising in India will discover in this book how wrong they are. H-NET REVIEWS

Book Description:

A worthy companion to any good collection of scholarly works on this subject. ...Many readers who deem themselves sufficiently familiar with the great uprising in India will discover in this book how wrong they are.

About this edition

• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1843833042
• ISBN 13: 9781843833048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 258