The Great Uprising in India, 1857-58 by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
The events of the 1857-8 uprising in India as seen through the eyes of British and Indian eye-witnesses, giving a vivid picture of life in the midst of what one called 'the wind of madness.'
Full of fascinating information and engagingly writtenHUGH PURCELL, * HISTORY TODAY *
[An] original and less Anglo-centric view of history. * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
[An] eminently readable book. [.] Even those familiar with the well worn stories of the 1857-58 period will, I think, find much of interest here that will be new to them. Highly recommended. * DURBAR *
A good read, and even those already steeped in the subject will find a lot to interest them. * CHOWKIDAR *
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones has spent years in the archives digging up forgotten corners of the history of relations between the British and the Indians, and she is the leading and much revered authority on Nawabi Lucknow. The Great Uprising, like all her works, is full of new and original material, engagingly presented and amusingly written. Her fascinating work deserves to be much better known and more widely read than it currently is. * WILLIAM DALRYMPLE *
An unconventional look at the Red Year of 1857 by someone who knows her stuff -- and who is not afraid to take her own line on a bloody episode of British and Indian history that still raises hackles. -- Charles Allen, author of Plain Tales from the Raj
A worthy companion to any good collection of scholarly works on this subject. ...Many readers who deem themselves sufficiently familiar with the great uprising in India will discover in this book how wrong they are. * H-NET REVIEWS *
[An] original and less Anglo-centric view of history. * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
[An] eminently readable book. [.] Even those familiar with the well worn stories of the 1857-58 period will, I think, find much of interest here that will be new to them. Highly recommended. * DURBAR *
A good read, and even those already steeped in the subject will find a lot to interest them. * CHOWKIDAR *
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones has spent years in the archives digging up forgotten corners of the history of relations between the British and the Indians, and she is the leading and much revered authority on Nawabi Lucknow. The Great Uprising, like all her works, is full of new and original material, engagingly presented and amusingly written. Her fascinating work deserves to be much better known and more widely read than it currently is. * WILLIAM DALRYMPLE *
An unconventional look at the Red Year of 1857 by someone who knows her stuff -- and who is not afraid to take her own line on a bloody episode of British and Indian history that still raises hackles. -- Charles Allen, author of Plain Tales from the Raj
A worthy companion to any good collection of scholarly works on this subject. ...Many readers who deem themselves sufficiently familiar with the great uprising in India will discover in this book how wrong they are. * H-NET REVIEWS *
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones (PhD) graduated from SOAS in Urdu and is now an acclaimed historian of the colonial history of India from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. She has published extensively on this period and her particular interest is in the political interaction between the British and
their Indian subjects. She is also Secretary to the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia and editor of its journal Chowkidar.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781843833048 |
| ISBN 10 | 1843833042 |
| Title | The Great Uprising in India, 1857-58 |
| Author | Rosie Llewellyn-Jones |
| Series | Worlds Of The East India Company |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Boydell Press |
| Year published | 2007-07-19 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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