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Discover 2025’s best books on class, identity, and global politics. From Saraswati’s mythical quest to Bandung’s legacy, ...
The Sepoy Uprising, which took place in India in 1857 - 58, is seen as one of the most shocking insurrections to take place ...
Posey served in various military roles throughout the Revolution. The Indiana Historical Society has his original enlistment ...
You don’t need to travel 20,000 leagues under the sea to hop aboard Nautilus, the series based on Jules Verne’s defining 1870 ...
From 1857 to 1911, Calcutta was the capital of British India and no more the capital of landmass conquered by the East India Company, which was nothing more of a multinational business entity.
India between 1857 and 1947: How many different ways can you paint the Taj Mahal in Agra? Raj era paintings: Between the first war of Independence in 1857 and Indian Independence in 1947, European ...
Although officials paid compensation after a 1919 massacre in Punjab, they paid far less to Indian families than Europeans.
In 1857, after a bloody uprising by disgruntled troops in Company pay and even bloodier reprisals by the eventually victorious British, control was transferred to the Crown, making India an ...
What is the similarity between British retribution after recapturing Delhi from mutineers in 1857 and the Israeli state’s raging military operation in Gaza today? The two incidents may be ...
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 ...