In 1857 a large part of the Indian army rebelled against the British authorities; the ensuing bloodshed sent shockwaves throughout colonial Britain.

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 ...

The intelligence which we publish this morn ing in a letter from India, and which is confirmed by other sources, indicates a state of affairs in that country which probably finds no parallel in ...

The heroic story of the first independence movement of 10 May 1857 is not complete without mentioning the martyrdom of the heroes belonging to the rural areas of Delhi-NCR. In ...

Had circumstances not led to the display of British power at the time when great prizes were sure to follow even from minor exertions, England never could have become mistress of India.

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 ...

Pp. xviii, 238. Maps, tables, appends., notes, biblio., index. $120.00. ISBN: 1441177302 The “Indian Army” under the Raj Roy, author of several works on South Asian military history, here examines the ...

Samuel Bourne, of Bourne & Shepherd in Shimla and later Calcutta (Kolkata), who travelled through India from 1863 to 1871 was mesmerized by the Taj. He wrote in the 'British Journal of Photography ...

The Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Indian Mutiny, the Sepoy Mutiny, or the First War of Indian Independence, was a widespread uprising against British rule in India that began in May ...

Sepoy 1857 accounts for the great Indian Mutiny, 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 of the ...

For Nicholson, as for all the British in India, the supreme challenge came in 1857, when a military mutiny among the “sepoys” (Indian soldiers) of the East India Company led to a full scale ...