Download or read book The Cawnpore Man written by Mowbray Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of siege, massacre and survival Mowbray Thompson was an officer -stationed at Cawnpore with Wheeler's command within the Indian North Eastern province of Oudh during 1857-the year of the outbreak of the Great Indian Mutiny. The tiny Cawnpore garrison was soon attacked-principally by elements of the Native Bengal Army-and withdrew to occupy an entirely unsuitable and ultimately impossible to defend position. After a period of bloody battle, costly in the lives of soldiers and civilians alike the situation seemed hopeless. Then an offer of honourable surrender appeared to offer the miracle of salvation. But the nightmare of the defenders of Cawnpore was about to escalate to levels of unimagined horror. A series of atrocities was about to befall them that were so terrible that they would become a rallying cry for Blood Vengeance throughout the British empire. This is story of one man-told in his own words-who lived through those terrible days.
Download or read book The Story of Cawnpore written by Mowbray Thomson and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1859 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Devil s Trap written by James W. Bancroft and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the Siege of Cawnpore and the massacre of British noncombatants in Colonial India reveals the human side of the struggle. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the strategic garrison at Cawnpore was surprised by an extended siege. Many British noncombatants were holed up in a makeshift entrenchment, suffering from thirst, starvation and disease, all while being bombarded with cannon balls and bullets. After nearly two months, the company surrendered to the rebel leader Nana Sahib in exchange for safe passage out of the city. But when the survivors reached Sati Chaura Ghat, a landing on the River Ganges, they were massacred. Much has been written about the siege of Cawnpore and the political events which caused it, but there less known about the people who suffered the ordeal. In The Devil’s Trap, historian James Bancroft studies official documentation and primary sources from both sides to offer a more human understanding of events and shed light on the lives of the victims.
Download or read book Report on the Cawnpore Agricultural Station in the United Provinces written by Kanpur. Agricultural Station and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Cawnpore written by Mowbray Thomson and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. THE HISTORY OF THE NANA--'PERSONAL DESCRIPTION-- BITHOOR AND ITS PALACE--PROPITIATING THE GANGES-- AZIMOOLAH KHAN--HIS ADVENTURES IN ENGLAND. Among the peculiarities which have attached to the mutiny of 1857, one fact, which has greatly weakened the cause of the rebels, has been, that their ranks have not yielded one man of mental calibre and military skill sufficient to constitute him a great leader, and to draw the confidence of the natives around his banners. If, instead of being split up into factions, under a diversity of incompetent chiefs, as they have been, an Aurungzebe, a Hyder, or a Tippoo had made his appearance among the sepoys, the possession of India as an appendage to the British Crown would, in all probability, have required a reconquest rather than the treading out the scattered embers of mutiny by forced marches, which has been the task assigned to the army of Lord Clyde. Looking round upon the pretensions of the men who had assumed the command of the mutineers, we search in vain for one whose conduct has been instigated by motives of patriotism, or whose character will bear the slightest investigation. In some instances Mahommedan spite, in others imaginary personal grievances, and, in not a few, base ingratitude, have formed the only discernible motives of the disaffected chiefs who have taken up arms against us. The name most familiarly associated with the events of the mutiny is that borne by a man whose history is almost unknown out of India. And as Nana Sahib will always be identified with the sanguinary proceedings at Cawnpore, it will not be out of place to give the reader some idea of the antecedents of this notorious scoundrel. Seereek Dhoondoo Punth, or as he is now universally called the Nana...
Download or read book The Siege of Krishnapur written by J.G. Farrell and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Booker Prize. An insightful and thrilling novel about the British Empire in India during the Great Mutiny of 1857, as seen through the eyes of a young, love-struck idealist. India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one of the finest British novels of the last fifty years. Farrell's story is set in an isolated Victorian outpost on the subcontinent. Rumors of strife filter in from afar, and yet the members of the colonial community remain confident of their military and, above all, moral superiority. But when they find themselves under actual siege, the true character of their dominion—at once brutal, blundering, and wistful—is soon revealed. The Siege of Krishnapur is a companion to Troubles, about the Easter 1916 rebellion in Ireland, and The Singapore Grip, which takes place just before World War II, as the sun begins to set upon the British Empire. Together these three novels offer an unequaled picture of the follies of empire.
Download or read book Cholera Epidemics of Recent Years written by James Bryden and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book Hand book of Indian Agriculture written by Nitya Gopal Mukerji and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book REPORT ON THE ENQUIRY TO BRING TECHNICAL INSTITUTIONS INTO CLOSER TOUCH AND MORE PRACTICAL RELATIONS WITH OF LABOUR IN INDIA written by E. H ATKINSON and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book THE GREAT WHITE HAND OR THE TIGER OF CAWNPORE A STORY OF INDIAN MUTINY written by JAMES EDWARD MUDDOCK and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 1894, I published in two volumes a romance of the Indian Mutiny, under the title of “The Star of Fortune.” A short prefatory note intimated that it was my lot to be in India during the terrible time of the Sepoy Rebellion. From this it may be inferred that I not only wrote with feeling, but with some personal knowledge of my subject. “The Star of Fortune” was exceedingly well received by the public, and last year a cheaper edition was called for. That edition has been extensively circulated throughout India and the Colonies. The book on the whole was well reviewed, while my critics were good enough to accord me praise, by no means stinted, for the portions which dealt with the Mutiny proper. One London paper said it was “a very fine picture narrative,” another spoke of it as “a spirited piece of writing,” a third declared it was “written with spirit and vivacity,” a fourth as being “really breathless in interest.” I could go on multiplying quotations similar to the foregoing, but those I have given will serve the purpose I have in view.
Download or read book The Male Empire Under the Female Gaze written by Susmita Mittapalli and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cawnpore written by Tom Williams and published by Accent Press (UK). This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distraught by tumultuous events in Borneo and separated from his lover, John Williamson comes to India to make his way with the East India Company in the frontier city of Cawnpore. Here, he struggles to fit in; a gay man in a straight society; a farm labourer's son in a world of gentleman's clubs and dinner parties. Yet he finds himself falling in love with the country, and in particular with a young nobleman in the court of a local lord, and begins to think he can make a good life for himself there. But whispers of mutiny and insurrection abound in the local populace, and when the country is plunged into war, Williamson must choose whose side he is really on. Set against the bloody backdrop of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, Williamson's adventures chronicle events which shocked the world and shaped the future of the Indian nation.
Download or read book A Personal Narrative of the Outbreak and Massacre at Cawnpore During the Sepoy Revolt Of 1857 written by W J Shepherd and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... on to Cawnpore, where the poor man was killed by order of the Nana. "Poor Mrs. Carter was kept a prisoner under a guard of "the 7th Cavalry, and after passing the perils of child-birth--a girl "born on the 15th June--she appears to have Been treated by the "Paishwa's widows with consideration and even with kindness, who "possessed the softer and kindlier feelings of womanhood, especially "towards a suffering and unfortunate member of their sex. But to the "Nana pity was unknown, revenge precious, even though expended "on a weak and helpless woman and unconscious babe; and though "at first overlooking his poor captive, whilst occupied in preparing "for the safety of his own miserable life, he did not allow himself "to forget her entirely." CHAPTER IX. I Will now relate what occurred among the prisoners at Putkapoor. When the sepoys of the guard found, on the evening of the 16th July, that the station was deserted by the rebel army, and that a large portion of the population of the city was gone, they also made arrangements to leave, by bringing out their clothes and traps and making them into bundles. The subadar's pony was saddled, and at about candle-light they rose to start. The prison door had been kept locked since eight o'clock that morning; for fear of some, if not all, of the prisoners taking advantage of the confusion and running away, the subadar kept the key of the lock with him, and thus we got no water to drink all that day. Now, when the prisoners saw that they were about to be thus abandoned, they gave a tremendous shout, and used certain expressions, implying that the sepoys would for ever be cursed if they left them thus shut up in this prison. This had its effect; the subadar returned, and made arrangements with a...
Download or read book Selections from the Records of the Government in the Department written by India. Public Works Department and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
