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Book The Siege of Delhi

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  • Author : Amarpal Singh
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2021-07-15
  • ISBN : 1445682362
  • Pages : 817 pages

Download or read book The Siege of Delhi written by Amarpal Singh and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forensic look into the Sepoy rebellion at Meerut in 1857 and the three-month siege and capture of Delhi which followed.

Book The Last Mughal

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  • Author : William Dalrymple
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2009-08-17
  • ISBN : 1408806886
  • Pages : 580 pages

Download or read book The Last Mughal written by William Dalrymple and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire' Daily Telegraph 'Brims with life, colour and complexity . . . outstanding' Evening Standard 'A compulsively readable masterpiece' Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of Books A stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal. In May 1857 India's flourishing capital became the centre of the bloodiest rebellion the British Empire had ever faced. Once a city of cultural brilliance and learning, Delhi was reduced to a battered, empty ruin, and its ruler – Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last of the Great Mughals – was thrown into exile. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers, neither of whom could retreat. The Last Mughal tells the story of the doomed Mughal capital, its tragic destruction, and the individuals caught up in one of the most terrible upheavals in history, as an army mutiny was transformed into the largest anti-colonial uprising to take place anywhere in the world in the entire course of the nineteenth century.

Book The Siege of Delhi

Download or read book The Siege of Delhi written by and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1899 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Besieged

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2010-07-16
  • ISBN : 8184759169
  • Pages : 557 pages

Download or read book Besieged written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by Mahmood Farooqui, with notes on the Mutiny Papers and governance in Delhi 1857 by the translator When Delhi lay under siege for five harrowing months in the summer of 1857, the people of the city described the events as ghadar: a time of turbulence. Resources within the besieged city fell dangerously low and locals found the rebelling sepoys presence and the increased levies insufferable. Nonetheless, an extraordinary effort was launched by the government of Bahadur Shah Zafar to fight the British. Thousands of labourers and tonnes of materials were mobilized, funds were gathered, the police monitored food prices and a functioning bureaucracy was vigilantly maintained right until the walled city s fall. Then, as Delhi was transformed by the victorious British, these everyday sacrifices and the efforts of thousands of people to save their country were lost forever. In this groundbreaking work, Mahmood Farooqui presents the first extensive translations into English of the Mutiny Papers documents dating from Delhi s 1857 siege, originally written in Persian and Shikastah Urdu. The translations include such fascinating pieces as the constitution of the Court of Mutineers, letters from soldiers threatening to leave Delhi if they were not paid their salaries, complaints to the police about unruly soldiers, and reports of troublesome courtesans, spies, faqirs, doctors, volunteers and harassed policemen. Shifting focus away from the conventional understanding of the events of 1857, these translations return ordinary and anonymous men and women back into the history of 1857. Besieged offers a view of how the rebel government of Delhi organized the essential requirements of war food and labour, soldiers salaries, arms and ammunition but more than that, this deeply evocative book reveals the hopes, beliefs and failures of a people who lived through the tragic end of an era.

Book History of the Siege of Delhi

Download or read book History of the Siege of Delhi written by William Wotherspoon Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sikh Caucus  Siege in Delhi  Surrender in Washington  Punjabi Edition

Download or read book Sikh Caucus Siege in Delhi Surrender in Washington Punjabi Edition written by Pieter Friedrich and published by . This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is an old trick in the intelligence setup of major states to create their own stringent but controlled opposition. This has a twofold objective. First, it attracts and centralizes opposition resources and honest grassroots members, inciting them to put on a great show of force. Second, it ensures that this "resistance" remains only a pretense and prevents them from achieving anything of real value because the duplicitous leadership don't want any true change to come of it.It has always been a challenge to maintain the purity of any movement or organization. Infiltrating to sabotage from within and give a bad name, thus justifying the unleashing of oppression, has often been the basic framework in which the intelligence agencies have worked in India in the context of suppressing minorities. But this is very difficult to document.The author of this short but incisive book has done a wonderful job of exposing a fraudulent scheme which seems to have no other purpose than to stifle our Sikh community's political voice in the United States of America. In this particular case of the Sikh Caucus, the deception has been named and nailed. This kind of documentation is perhaps the most effective way of leading the community to the straight path.Treading that path is necessary to avoid being bogged down in the quicksand of extreme slogans made without any preparation or consideration of the consequences - something which accomplishes nothing more than to attract a disproportionate reaction that decimates the true struggle. Perhaps in the future, the community will take greater care to avoid emotionally pledging unquestioning loyalty to the people who display the most influence and power, only to finally find themselves betrayed. Rather, those who alone deserve our cautious and conditional support are the brave souls who speak the truth consistently and live a straight, simple, and honest life.- Rajvinder Singh Bains, Advocate, Punjab & Haryana High Court

Book The Siege of Lucknow

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  • Author : Lady Julia Selina Thesiger Inglis
  • Publisher : London : James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Company
  • Release : 1892
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book The Siege of Lucknow written by Lady Julia Selina Thesiger Inglis and published by London : James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Company. This book was released on 1892 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Siege of Delhi

Download or read book History of the Siege of Delhi written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

Book History Of The Siege Of Delhi  Illustrated Edition

Download or read book History Of The Siege Of Delhi Illustrated Edition written by Anonymous and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny] The Indian Mutiny, or Sepoy Revolt, flared up in many areas around the British controlled Raj in 1857. Government offices were sacked and many Europeans were put to the sword, the reasons for this sudden explosion of violence were many; religious affronts, British high-handedness and to some freedom from Imperialism. Delhi fell quickly to the rebels overcoming the small garrison and occupying the huge arsenal. As the former capital of the Mughal Empire Delhi was a beacon for those who sought to reinstate native control, many rebellious sepoys flocked to the city and the importance of Delhi as a symbol of the revolt gathered momentum by the day. The British forces, having recovered from the shock, understood the importance of Delhi as a focal point of resistance and dispatched a large force to retake the city, trusting in discipline and organised fighting power of the troops. The Siege of Delhi was pivotal to the entire Indian Mutiny and both sides were very aware of this, the fighting was among the bloodiest of the entire struggle. This account by an anonymous serving officer is a fabulously detailed account of the siege, full of the ebb and flow of the fortunes of the British besiegers as they sought to crush the rebellion.

Book The Siege of Delhi in 1857

Download or read book The Siege of Delhi in 1857 written by Arthur Gore Handcock and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Siege of Delhi In 1857

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  • Author : A. G. Handcock
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2018-02
  • ISBN : 9780267469192
  • Pages : 38 pages

Download or read book The Siege of Delhi In 1857 written by A. G. Handcock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Siege of Delhi in 1857: A Short Account It has been made as short as possible, as tourists have not generally much time for reading, and those who wish to study the history of the Indian Mutiny will find full details in the works quoted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Delhi   1857

Download or read book Delhi 1857 written by Keith Young and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Twelve Years of a Soldier s Life in India

Download or read book Twelve Years of a Soldier s Life in India written by W S R (William Stephen Rai Hodson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Punjab and Delhi in 1857

Download or read book The Punjab and Delhi in 1857 written by John Cave-Browne and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The First Anglo Sikh War

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  • Author : Amarpal Singh
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2010-08-15
  • ISBN : 1445620383
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The First Anglo Sikh War written by Amarpal Singh and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of the First Anglo-Sikh War, with maps that shed light on the action as never before

Book The Siege of Delhi

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 9789354227332
  • Pages : 523 pages

Download or read book The Siege of Delhi written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: