Rumours and Rebels
A New History of the Indian Uprising of 1857
The Indian Uprising of 1857 had a profound impact on the British experience on the subcontinent and fears of its recurrence continued to haunt the colonisers until the very end of the Raj. For the past 150 years most aspects of the Uprising have been subjected to intense scrutiny by historians, yet the nature of the outbreak itself remains obscure. What was the extent of the conspiracies and plotting? How could rumours of contaminated ammunition spark a mutiny when not a single greased cartridge was ever distributed to the sepoys?Based on a careful, even-handed reassessment of the primary sources, Rumours and Rebels explores the existence of…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-906165-89-5
- EAN: 9781906165895
- Produktnummer: 22074898
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 354 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.9 cm 536 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 536
Über den Autor
Kim A. Wagner is Senior Lecturer in British Imperial History at Queen Mary University of London. He was originally taught by the late Prof. C. A. Bayly at Cambridge and has published extensively on the subject of Thuggee, intelligence-gathering and colonial violence in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British India. His most recent publications include Treading Upon Fires: The Mutiny-Motif and Colonial Anxieties in British India, Past & Present (2013) and Calculated to Strike Terror: The Amritsar Massacre and the Spectacle of Colonial Violence, Past & Present (2016).
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