The Indian Mutiny

by Julian Spilsbury

First published 2007

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Julian Spilsbury reconstructs the Indian Rebellion of 1857 from the outbreak among East India Company troops to the fighting that engulfed Delhi, Cawnpore, Lucknow and other centres across northern India. He sets military events against the grievances created by annexation, army service, political change and fears of religious interference, while following the collapse of Company authority and the emergence of very different local rebel leaderships.

Using eyewitness accounts from soldiers and civilians on both sides, the book describes sieges, massacres, relief columns and the increasingly brutal reprisals that accompanied the British reconquest. It also follows the rebellion’s political consequences: the end of East India Company government, the transfer of India to the Crown and the reorganisation of an army whose loyalties had become one of the central questions of empire.

Historical Periods

Indian Rebellion of 18571857–1858 CE

Genres

Political History

Historical people

Victoria1819–1901 James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie1812–1860 Henry Montgomery Lawrence1806–1857 John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence1811–1879 Rani Lakshmibai1828–1858 Bahadur Shah Zafar1775–1862 Nana Sahib1824–c. 1859