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8 - ‘A Struggle of Life and Death’

from Part II - 1857: The Year of Civilisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2020

Alan Lester ,
Kate Boehme  and
Peter Mitchell
Alan Lester
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
Kate Boehme
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
Peter Mitchell
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
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Summary

Syed Ahmed Kahn and the causes of the 1857 Indian Uprising; building India’s railways and the doctrine of lapse; the course of the Mutiny and Uprising; attempts to coordinate the imperial response in London and the conveyance of an army across Suez; the need for restructuring the imperial government.

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Indian Uprisingimperial government
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Ruling the World
Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
 , pp. 220 - 249
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Chakravarty, G., The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination, Cambridge University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Dalrymple, W., The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857, Bloomsbury, 2006.Google Scholar
Nayar, P., ed., India 1857: The Great Uprising, Penguin Books India, 2007.Google Scholar
Wagner, K., The Great Fear of 1857: Rumours, Conspiracies and the Making of the Indian Uprising, Peter Lang, 2010.Google Scholar
Wilson, J., India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire, Simon and Schuster, 2016.Google Scholar

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