BBC1 年
Indian rebellion and the decline of the Mughal Empire
In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I approved the creation of the East India ... in March 1857, a sepoy named Mangal Pandey attacked his British officer and was executed. By May, the rebellion spread ...
Cambridge University Press3 年
The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination
Gautam Chakravarty explores representations of the event which has become known in the British imagination as the 'Indian Mutiny' of 1857 in British popular fiction and historiography. Drawing on a ...