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Lädt ... The Indian Mutiny: 1857von Saul David
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A very good, if "Anglo", retelling of The Indian Mutiny. Previously, I had a vague idea that there was a mutiny in 1857 and that the Black Hole of Calcutta was somehow involved but the author has filled me in nicely. As mentioned, this is very much a retelling of the English side of the story and we get much more details of the English soldiers and settlers than of the Indian mutineers (or indeed of the Indian soldiers that remained loyal to the British. In particular, I once watched an Indian movie on a man named Mangal Pandey, who was renowned as the spark of the Indian Mutiny. Yet, in this book, the author gives Pandey one dismissive sentence. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
The Indian Mutiny of 1857 was the bloodiest insurrection in the history of the British Empire. It began with a large-scale uprising by native troops against their colonial masters, and soon developed into general rebellion as thousands of discontented civilians joined in. It is a tale of brutal murder and heroic resistance from which innocents on both sides could not escape. This work covers the story of the Mutiny. It challenges the accepted wisdom that a British victory was inevitable, showing just how close the mutineers came to dealing a fatal blow to the British Raj. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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In the end, the chief conspirators remain in the shadow, and the British Empire reigned supreme. Maybe, as he said, India was not ready. we sometimes forget that mutinies and their spread are extremely complex stories, and that they cannot be ascribed to simple, single incidents as they are in schools.
He seems to have a great deal of admiration for the Rani of Jhansi, and it shows.
My only quibble, is that there is a lot of material about the atrocities that the British people suffered at the hands of the Indians, and not enough about the other way around. This could be because of the paucity of material from the Indian perspective.
Having said that, the book is very well balanced, and finely nuanced. This is a complex bit of Indian history, and he has done a fantastic job in bringing it to life. ( )