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| | Indian rebellion of 1857 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Due to the bloody start of the rebellion, and the violence perpetrated upon the Europeans by the Indian forces especially after the apparent treachery of Nana Sahib and butchery in Cawnpore, the British believed that they were justified in using similar tactics. | | | The justice system was inherently unfair to the Indians as can be expected from any foreign occupation. | | | The official Blue Books — entitled "East India (Torture) 1855–1857" — that were laid before the House of Commons during the sessions of 1856 and 1857, revealed that British officers were allowed an extended series of appeals if convicted or accused of brutality or crimes against Indians. |
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| | The Indian Mutiny, 1857 |
| | Indian uprisings against British rule, however, were unsuccessful due to the superior technology and organization of the British army. | | | As the missionaries were mostly British citizens, the Colonial Administration often had to intervene to protect them, which naturally gave an impression of official condolence for Christianity. | | | Most of the Europeans living in Delhi were murdered along with Indian Christians. |
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http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/mutiny.html
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| | SikhSpectrum.com Monthly. The Truth About the Indian Mutiny of 1857 |
| | Such a movement for which various mutual fraternities of Indian people had not been consulted and taken into confidence, and which was openly denounced by the people of Bengal and Madras, and was not joined by the people of Maharashtra, Bombay, Gujrat, Sindh, and Rajasthan, could not according to the Panjabis be a national movement. | | | The educated communities of Bengal and Madras openly condemned the rising and denounced the mutiny and the mutineers. | | | he Poorbias alone did not constitute the Indian nation, nor was nationalism the name of whatever they did, whether it was the indiscriminate murder of innocent women and children, the plunder and spoliation of their own countrymen, or secret negotiations with the British to further their personal interests. |
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http://www.sikhspectrum.com/082004/1857_mutiny_g_s.htm
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| | British Empire: Articles: The British Press and the Indian Mutiny |
| | Concurrent with this notion, Disraeli believed that the Mutiny was a revolt against the policies employed by the company in the name of Britain, not a protest against the violation of religious taboos. | | | Finally, it was speculated that even as the paper was being written; "...the Sepoy mutiny had been suppressed", but there was still need for vigilance and more troops in case it should flair up again. | | | Disraeli was a consummate factionalist in the House of Commons and was notorious for seizing any opportunity to rouse the sentiments of special interest groups in his attempts to increase the power of his own position. |
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http://www.britishempire.co.uk/article/mutinypress.htm
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| | South Asian History: Indian Wars of Independence - Revolutionary Upheaval of 1857 |
| | Although dismissed by some as merely a sepoy's mutiny or revolt, or as a protest against the violation of religious rights by the British, the great uprising of 1857 is slowly gaining recognition as India's first war of independence. | | | Although not very well known, the period between 1763 and 1856 was not a period during which Indians accepted alien rule passively. | | | Resorting to rumors and falsehoods, they deliberately recast Indian history in highly communal colors and practised pernicious communal politics to divide the Indian masses. |
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http://members.tripod.com/~INDIA_RESOURCE/1857.html
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| | Historia 1999 |
| | Indian people viewed missionary schools and orphanages as institutions that only benefitted the British by making Christian converts. | | | The Indian people, whether Hindu or Muslim, viewed Christianity with suspicion and loathing. | | | [s]tanding guard over Green [probably, Jamie Green, native cook of a Mutinied regiment, condemned for treason and spying] and Sarvur Khan as they awaited execution, Forbes-Mitchell prevented his fellow Highlanders from procuring "pork from the bazaar to break their castes" and provided the condemned men with a last meal and a hookah. |
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http://www.eiu.edu/~historia/1999/sepoy99.htm
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| | INDIAN MUTINY - LoveToKnow Article on INDIAN MUTINY |
| | The Indian Mutiny was in no sense a national rising. | | | A fortnight later he wrote, as the result of his inquiries, We have at Barrackpur been dwelling upon a mine ready for explosion. | | | This young Mahratta, since known to universal execration as the arch-villain of the Mutiny, was secretly burning with a sense of injury received from the Indian government. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/I/IN/INDIAN_MUTINY.htm
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| | India's Freedom Struggle : Indian National Congress at Kamat's Potpourri |
| | Throughout the freedom struggle, Indians had to battle the religious divide and hatred among Hindus and Muslims. | | | Gandhi's comments on Satyagraha) which appealed to the common Indians who were largely pious and religious. | | | Contrary to his plans, it only brought the Bengalis and rest of Indians together. |
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http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/freedom/inc.htm
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| | The Delhi Campaign |
| | Their motive simply has been to create a myth that they were really superior to the Indians. | | | But the sepoys had not real leader, the King who could have been a real leader by virtue of his special position lacked the resolution or energy to be one due to old age and his defeatist advisors. | | | The sepoys could not have brought all men to Badli. |
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http://defencejournal.com/2000/jan/dehli-campaign.htm
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| | Indian Mutiny -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | So radical were Dalhousie's changes and so widespread the resentment they caused that his policies were frequently held responsible for the Indian Mutiny in... | | | As Columbus explored the islands of the Caribbean, he clung to the belief that he was off the coast of Asia. | | | The Indian National Army (INA) was formed during World War II by Indian nationalists and prisoners of war dedicated to winning India's independence from the British Empire. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9042288?tocId=9042288
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| | The Great Indian Mutiny - Aug. 10, 2003 |
| | After massive reinforcements arrived from Britain, retaliation was swift and cruel, with Indians calling it the "Devil's Wind." No sepoys were left alive after their positions were overrun. | | | Although these events transpired almost 150 years ago, it serves to remind us that grievances, if left unattended and allowed to fester by the authorities, could lead to more serious consequences, particularly if there exist other issues fueling unrest. | | | Later when prisoners started to be taken and trials held, those convicted of mutiny were lashed to the muzzles of cannon and a roundshot fired through their bodies. |
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http://www.inq7.net/opi/2003/aug/10/opi_rjfarolan-1.htm
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| | History - The Freedom Struggle |
| | With the failure of the 1857 mutiny, the leadership of the freedom movement passed into the hands of this class and crystallised in the formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885. | | | By the end of 1859, the "emperor" had been deported to Burma where he died a lonely death, bringing to a formal end the era of Mughal rule in India. | | | He had won his political spurs organising the Indian community there against the vicious system of apartheid. |
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http://www.indembassyhavana.cu/culture/culture-history-independencestruggle.htm
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| | Contemporary Review: The Indian Mutiny 1857 - Book Review |
| | Lest anyone be put off by this statement he should remember that the author was a well-established military historian before he earned his doctorate, with books on the Salerno mutiny and Lord Cardigan (of Light Brigade fame). | | | Contemporary Review: The Indian Mutiny 1857 - Book Review | | | However the mutiny which became a revol t led to numerous reforms in Indian government, education and the military. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1643_281/ai_96210781
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Indian Mutiny: 1857 |
| | The Indian mutiny is a subject which has often been taken up whether by other historians, such as Christopher Hibbert (who compared to this wrote a rather turgid account), or even in fiction. | | | What was their view of events, what action had they taken to quell the mutiny, and perhaps more about the relationship between them and the British Government. | | | Fittingly, however, David ends his account of the mutiny with the moving reminiscences of an aged sepoy who remained loyal throughout these traumatic times. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141005548
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| | BBC - History - British India before and after the Great Rebellion of 1857 |
| | Indians were assumed to have been a deeply conservative people whose traditions and ways of life had been disregarded by their British rulers. | | | Reforms, new laws, new technology, even Christianity, had been forced upon them. | | | In 1857 a large part of the Indian army rebelled against the British authorities; the ensuing bloodshed sent shockwaves throughout colonial Britain. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/state/empire/indian_rebellion_01.shtml
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| | Indian, Chinese, & Japanese Emperors |
| | Since Bengal had been a possession of the Moghul Emperors, this fiction was maintained at least until 1827. | | | As Jan Nattier has said recently [A Few Good Men, The Bodhisattva Path According to the Inquiry of Ugra (Ugraparipr.cchâ), University of Hawai'i Press, 2003]: | | | Indian Moslems became accustomed, as was their right under Islâmic Law, to be ruled by a Moslem power. |
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http://www.friesian.com/sangoku.htm
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| | Internet Indian History Sourcebook |
| | The Indian Revolt, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1857, [At The Atlantic] | | | In sum: these sites are unreliable exercises in political propaganda. | | | The Sikhs are an Indian people, defined by their religion, who emerged in India during the centuries of Muslim political power (which accounts for the placement of these texts in the Sourcebook). |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html
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| | History of the World: Indian Mutiny@ HighBeam Research |
| | The first serious menace against this growing power appeared in a native movement, the culmination of which is known as the Indian or Sepoy... | | | History of the World: Indian Mutiny@ HighBeam Research | | | There were frequent wars with the French, England's rivals in India, and with the natives in different Provinces that one after another were absorbed into the British possessions. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28031193&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf
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| | The Mohican Board! [Bumppo's Redux!] - The Great Indian Mutiny of 1857 |
| | Actually I found it to be a light read, but it did cover some of the important aspects of the forces present, as well as the political climate. | | | I even agree with the trials and sentences handed out to the mutiny ringleaders and most viscious war criminals (amazing how witinessing mutineers being blown to bits at the muzzle of a cannon helped keep the peace in that region). | | | For one thing, I'm pretty positive this book didn't spin off from his doctoral thesis. |
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http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1608
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| | Indian Mutiny Background |
| | Then accompanied by a mob from the bazaar poured into the cantonment where the Europeans lived and murdered any Europeans or Indian Christians they could find. | | | Against this backdrop of Indian unease muttered rumours and tales of old prophecies began to circulate. | | | Evangelical Christians had little understanding of, or respect for, India's ancient faiths and the attitude of scrupulous non-interference in religious affairs that had characterised British rule in the 18th century was forgotten by a native populace that came to believe the British wished to convert them. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/5443/indmut2.htm
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| | The Indian Mutiny of 1857-8 |
| | The Imperial Archive Project is supervised by Leon Litvack. | | | Under the administration of the Marquess of Dalhousie (Governor-General 1848-56), the last of the independent Indian states, including the wealthy Muslim state of Oudh, were annexed by the British. | | | The mutiny, regarded by many as India's first War of Independence, was to have important consequences and the structure of British India was to be re-organised extensively. |
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http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/imperial/india/mutiny.htm
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| | Indian Mutiny |
| | The Relief of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny by Thomas Jones Barker | | | The Mutiny started in Meerut, with the news reaching the British at Simla on the 12th of May 1857, Troops were moved to re-take the city of Delhi which was in the hands of the Mutineers, After a three month siege the City was taken on the 14th of September 1857. | | | The city had been heavily fortified by the approximately 120,000 mutineers encamped therein, and during the first days of March 1858, the Bays took part in several sharp actions outside the city walls. |
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http://www.war-art.com/indian_mutiny1.htm
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| | roberts-xiii |
| | I have frequently wandered over the Ridge since 1857, and thought how wonderfully we were aided by finding a ready-made position—not only a coign of vantage for attack, but a rampart of defence, as Forrest (George W. Forrest., The Indian Mutiny) describes it. | | | That these troops should have been allowed to retain their weapons is one of the mysteries of the Mutiny. | | | The ribbon to the left bears the colors of "Indian Mutiny Medal" presented to troops engaged "against the mutineers." This included both British and Indian forces. |
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http://www.pinetreeweb.com/roberts-xiii.htm
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| | The Indian Mutiny |
| | But relations were deteriorating as resentment against the British grew. | | | It was the first united movement against British rule in India. | | | The Indian Mutiny (or the First Indian War of Independence as it is now known in India) was an armed uprising in northern and central India from 1857-58. |
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http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/molsite/exhibits/oneil/pages/mutiny.asp
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| | ‘The Rising’: Tale of Indian mutiny of 1857 : Bollywood News : ApunKaChoice.Com |
| | Thereafter, Mangal Pandey leads a mutiny against the British, setting off a wave for India’s freedom from its imperialist rulers. | | | Set against the backdrop of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, Ketan Mehta’s film The Rising tells the tale of a heroic sepoy who spearheaded the movement that later grew into the struggle for Indian freedom. | | | Director Ketan Mehta says that ‘The Rising’ is his first movie in the trilogy that will focus around the rise of great Indian freedom struggle in the mid 19th century. |
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http://www.apunkachoice.com/scoop/bollywood/20041228-2.html
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| | Indian Mutiny |
| | If they had been caught they would have been killed for sure. | | | This was started by Indian troops in the service of the British East India Company ('John's Company') and it resulted in the power of the company being handed over to the British Crown. | | | The city of Lucknow, capital of Oudh, saw great heroism and fortitude. |
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http://www.dowlingfamily.info/i1857in1.htm
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| | Indian Mutiny. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | The Indian soldiers were dissatisfied with their pay as well as with certain changes in regulations, which they interpreted as part of a plot to force them to adopt Christianity. | | | In 1853, Nana Sahib, leader of the Marathas, was denied his titles and pension by the British, and the aged Bahadur Shah II, last of the Mughal emperors, was informed that the dynasty would end with his death. | | | Although it is too much to say that the mutiny constituted a nationalist uprising, it was at that time that the first stirrings of active Indian nationalism began to be felt. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/in/IndianMu.html
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| | Indian Mutiny |
| | Many Indians believed that the British were seeking to destroy traditional Indian social, religious and cultural customs, a view shared by the sepoys of the Bengal Army, a substantial number of whom were high-caste Brahmins. | | | The Mutiny began in earnest at Meerut on 10 May 1857 when 85 members of the 3rd (Bengal) Light Cavalry who had been imprisoned for refusing the cartridges were rescued by Indian comrades. | | | Some regiments were disarmed before they had the chance to mutiny while in other cases British officers simply refused to doubt the loyalty of their men until it was too late. |
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| | Kamat's Potpourri: First Indian War of Independence |
| | After his capture and execution in April 1859, the leaderless Indians were soon pacified. | | | In 1856 it was rumored that additional troops were to be recruited for service in Burma, where they could not follow all their religious rules, and that Christian missionary efforts among the troops were to receive official encouragement. | | | However, Havelock's forces, even when joined by those of James Outram, were not strong enough to disarm and remove the enemy garrison, and they had to be relieved on November 16 by troops under Colin Campbell. |
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http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/itihas/1857.htm
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| | The 1857 Indian Mutiny |
| | The revolt, mutiny, or rebellion, which some have seen as the first Indian war of independence, began on May 10, 1857. | | | "We could subdue the mutiny of 1857, formidable as it was, because it spread through only a part of the army, because people did not actively sympathize with it, and because it was possible to find native Indian races who would fight on our side. | | | The mutiny, which ended by destroying the Mughal Empire, had major effects on the U. as well, forcing the British government to assume direct control over the Indian subcontinent. |
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http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/1857.html
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| | The Atheneum Scientific History and Biography |
| | In 1858, the Queen issued a proclamation saying that all were her subjects and that there would be no discrimination, appointments would be made on the basis of merit, and that there would be no interference in religious matters. | | | The British called it the Indian Mutiny; later the Indians were to name it the Great War of Independence. | | | In April, 1857, Indian soldiers of the cavalry unit of Meerut refused to use the new cartridges, and hence were arrested and thrown into prison. |
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http://www.lexicorps.com/sepoy.htm
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| | And it is even possible for Indian units to be inside a fortress of an area that is not in revolt, since the area and the fortress are considered to be distinct. | | | For example, Rani has four units under her control but is in a hex with an additional 2 units. | | | Moving untested native units (6.0) To avoid the British ploy of marching the untested Indian units into the desert away from towns and mutinous provinces/units, have them roll against their mutiny number to see if they'll follow the order to move or remain stationary (but they do _not_ mutiny). |
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http://grognard.com/reviews/indmut.txt
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Armies of the Raj: From the Great Indian Mutiny to Independence, 1858-1947 |
| | After the Mutiny the British preferred to employ Northern Indians who were mostly moslem, as opposed to the Hindu's in the South of Madras and Bombay who were deemed untrustworthy and too smart by half for soldiering! | | | A hopeless patch-work of petty Mogul Princes and backward religions before the establishment of the Raj in the 18th century, the British were able to transform this mass into something resembling a wokable nation. | | | The Sepoy Mutiny came as a point delineating two facets of that experience. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393308022
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| | Indian Mutiny |
| | It was followed avidly by the British public and as the myths of the Mutiny grew it came to be seen almost as a latter-day British Iliad with gentleman-warriors of homeric proportions manfully defending the position, dignity and God-given duty of their race. | | | In 1857, the Indian Mutiny broke out and it rapidly became the greatest of all the imperial wars. | | | Of course the British had been involved in European wars much more expensive in blood and treasure than any that ever occurred in the overseas possessions, but they didn’t seem to catch the imagination of the British public in the same way that colonial conflicts did. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/5443/indmut.htm
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| | The Indian Mutiny battlefield tour |
| | The Indian Mutiny of 1857 was the bloodiest insurrection in the history of the British Empire. | | | century; the Second Maharatta War of 1803, the First Sikh War of 1845/46 and the Indian Mutiny in 1857. | | | Many of the battlefields that we visit are just as they were 200 years ago with some of the fortifications, such as that of Deig and Gwalighur, still as awesome and impressive. |
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http://www.midastours.co.uk/t081a.html
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| | Sepia Mutiny |
| | Instead it went stalker by going after a completely unrelated party, his day job, his employer, and issuing filmi, melodramatic threats. | | | The more nuclear and disproportionate the threat, the less credible, and IBM/Lenovo knows it. | | | Contrary to popular belief, most educated individuals in the 15th century, and especially sailors, already knew that the earth was round. |
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http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Film Historian doubts mutiny film plot |
| | The UK Film Council said it supported projects on the basis of "quality, not politics". | | | The Rising is billed as "an epic tale of friendship, betrayal, love and sacrifice set against the backdrop of what the British called the sepoy mutiny but which for Indians was the First War of Independence". | | | Bollywood epic Mangal Pandey: The Rising's depiction of events leading to India's 1857 mutiny is "nonsense", a UK historian has said. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/entertainment/film/4151152.stm
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| | Medal Recipients in British India |
| | Kevin has kindly allowed the publication on this website of names from this book, as well as full details of recipients from the HEIC Army, which are not included in the book. | | | He has published full details of members of the British Forces who received the medal in a book The Indian Mutiny Medal Roll (British Forces) 1857-1859. | | | Kevin Asplin has transcribed the names of all 50,700 men of the British Forces who received the Indian Mutiny medal, as well as the 5,059 recipients who served in 1st Madras Fusiliers, 3rd Madras Fusiliers, 1st Bengal Fusiliers, 2nd Bengal Fusiliers, 1st Bombay Fusiliers, the Lahore Light Horse and 'A Troop' Madras Horse Artillery. |
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http://users.rootsweb.com/~indwgw/medalpage.htm
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| | 61st FOOT IN INDIA |
| | The Regiment was ashore by mid-November and marched the 6 miles to Dum Dum. | | | He married, on 22nd February 1827, Agnes Duncan, daughter of Dr. Andrew Kelty of Tayhill and Greenbank, Perth, and of Devonside, Saline, Fife. | | | Half the 57th N.I. mutiny and march away, the rest return to barracks and lay down their arms. |
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http://members.tripod.com/%7EGlosters/index-4.html
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| | Indian Mutiny |
| | This Institution which he originated, and to which he contributed 87,000 Rupees is his best monument." | | | He commanded the Garrison of Lucknow at the outbreak of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857; was wounded by a shell on the 2nd and died on the 4th day of July 1857. |
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| | Indian Mutiny Medal List |
| | She states these names are taken from the Indian Mutiny Medal Roll (British Forces) 1857 - 1859 by Kevin Asplin. | | | See also William Dowling awarded Victoria Cross for gallantry during Indian Mutiny. | | | The lists are different so I show both. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian When Maya met Madhur |
| | When I first found out that we took the British side in the Indian Mutiny of 1857 I was just so embarrassed. | | | My father used to have a dish that was head and feet, so the head and feet were cooked and cooked and cooked in the Indian way with lots of spices, and the next day they were put in a dish with hard-boiled eggs and put in the fridge and it gelled. | | | MJ: I can trace my family back to the 1600s. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1589217,00.html
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| | Paintings Of Indian Mutiny Soldiers Bought By Museum Of London - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, ... |
| | The Mutiny, also known as the First Indian War of Independence, came to be seen as one of the defining moments of British rule in India. | | | Set to go on public display from October 15, the works have been bought with the help of grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), which contributed £713,000, and the National Art Collections Fund. | | | (1858), and companion piece, Home Again (1859), show soldiers boarding a ship bound for the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859), and returning to their families again over a year later. |
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http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh/ART24452.html
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| | Osprey Publishing - The Indian Mutiny |
| | Christopher Wilikinson-Latham details the history of the conflict, from its beginnings to ultimate resolution. | | | As it was the Mutiny witnessed several tragic and bloody events, from the original incident in Meerut to the horrifying siege of Cawnpore. | | | Had the ensuing uprising succeeded, it would have threatened the validity of the entire British Empire. |
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http://www.ospreypublishing.com/title_detail.php?title=Q2597&ser=MAA
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| | The Lucknow Campaign-1857-58 The Siege of Lucknow Residency |
| | 416 Page-89-The Battles of the Indian Mutiny-Op Cit. | | | 404 Pages-80 and 81-Battles of the Indian Mutiny-Op Cit. | | | 385Page-186- The Mutiny Records-Oudh and Lucknow- 1857-58 Edward.H.Hilton- Lucknow-1911-Reprinted- Oriental Publishers Lahore-1975. |
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