Dateline1857: Revolt Against The Raj
Rudrangshu Mukherjee and Pramod Kapoor
Untraceable in their origin and unverifiable in their import, the rumours of 1857 – forcible conversion, greased cartridge, end of the Company's rule at the centenary of Plassey, the disarming of native regiments – moved in a powerful current through the bazaars and sepoy lines making the sepoys as well as the local citizenry unsure of their future. The revolt against the Raj was the end of Mughal rule as well as the East India Company's rule in India replacing it with direct rule of the British Government. Though the causes were many, ranging from social to cultural, and from economic to political, the uprising of the people against 'all things British' was the first event in the history of Hindoostan when people from different religions, caste and economic backgrounds came together to redeem their own past.
Rudrangshu Mukherjee is a historian and journalist. Currently running the editorial pages of The Telegraph, he has held various academic posts and taught, among others, at Calcutta, Princeton and Manchester universities. He is the author of several books, most recently Mangal Pandey: Brave Martyr or Accidental Hero, India Then and Now, Awadh in Revolt, 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance and Spectre of Violence: The 1857 Kanpur Massacres. He is also the editor of The Penguin Gandhi Reader and Great Speeches of Modern India. Mukherjee lives in Kolkata. Pramod Kapoor is a collector of historical records and photographs, and a publisher by prefession. The photographs for this book were lovingly collected over a long period of time from all over the world.
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