Associate Professor of
As the year 1857 passed into history, and the uprising got fully warmed up in the hot plains of Hindustan, the people in England came to realize how untruthful Vernon Smith, the President of the Board of Control, was in telling them that what had happened was just a Mutiny of some Sepoys, “which would be quashed before long”. They wanted to know the whole truth about the ‘greatest calamity’ that could have ever befallen upon their nation (Disraeli). The extant literature was found, to their chagrin, inadequate. As a result, a new crop of literature-some histories and part-histories, diaries and reminiscences, and so forth-came up, whose authors were, in most case, more scholarly in their treatment of the subject than their predecessors. But they retained, in most cases, the old world views of the uprising in their discourses.
Revolt, Hindustan, Interpretation, British, Nationalist, British, Historiography, Mutiny, Sepoy, Pamphlet, Material, Punjab, Sikh, Delhi, Mughal, Literature, Source Uprising
