Narrative of the Indian Revolt : From Its Outbreak to the Capture of Lucknow

Sir Colin Campbell

ISBN 10: 8173053316 / ISBN 13: 9788173053313

Published by Aryan, New Delhi, 2007

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Contents 1. The revolt its origin and character. 2. Disaffection appears at Berhampore. 3. Re appearance of the disaffection at Lucknow. 4. Delhi and its defences. 5. Mutiny stamped out at Ferozepore. 6. Alarm at Calcutta. 7. The siege of Delhi. 8. Lucknow besieged. 9. Cawnpore. 10. The flight from Futteyghur. 11. The Army of retribution. 12. Outbreak at Dinapore. 13. Affairs at Agra the battle of Agra. 14. The siege of Delhi continued. 15. Condition of Delhi after the siege. 16. The relief of Lucknow. 17. Havelock's column of relief besieged in Lucknow. 18. The relief of Lucknow by Sir Colin Campbell. 19. The Punjab. 20. Narrative of the defence of Lucknow and the death of Sir H. Lawrence. 21. General Windham at Cawnpore. 22. How the Punjab was saved. 23. Lord Canning's defence. 24. Arrival of the Lucknow Garrison at Calcutta. 25. Journals of the siege of Lucknow. 26. Death of the Queen of Oude. 27. Sir Henry Havelock His life and labours. 28. Indian Grievances and Indian revenge. 29. From Calcutta to Cawnpore in 1858. 30. Sir Colin Campbell's operations in Oude. 31. An Indian's view of the causes of the mutiny. 32. The trial of the King of Delhi. 33. The recapture of Lucknow. 34. Operations and prospects after the capture of Lucknow. 35. Official despatches. 36. Our policy in India measures for the suppression of the revolt conclusion. This remarkable volume gives a graphic description of the Revolt of 1857 in India and narrates in full its progress and suppression. The author's breathtaking illustrated account of the sepoys uprising strictly based on official letters and dispatches eye witnesses and memoirs reported in chronological order cannot be ignored. Of course this rich material makes the volume indispensable work of historical importance. The book published first in 1858 is now a collector's item. The author examines the premeditation for the outbreak of the revolt and devotes a full chapter to consider the causes of the revolt. (These are largely admitted by the distinguished historians). He probes deeply into the crucial events and projects the view that there was no definite and coordinated plan of the Indian rulers and they merely shared their deeply felt grievances. The volume further reveals the motives that animated them to rise against the British Raj. It implicates Bahadur Shah Zafar Nana Saheb and Rani Lakshmi Bai for the massacre of the Europeans at Delhi Kanpur and Jhansi. The British atrocities i.e. blowing away of sepoys indiscriminate hanging and burning of villages are uniformly highlighted. It also puts on record the Indian rulers who betrayed the country. Conspicuously the author finds a deep solidarity among the sepoys who made the revolt widespread. The book is peerless for its illustrations which represent almost each theatre of the rebellion. These are truly historical and free from an artist's whimsical and fanciful ideas. These are not merely entertaining but are of unique documentary value. An introduction to the volume written by Professor S.P. Verma critically examines historicity of the text and illustrations. 452 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Narrative of the Indian Revolt : From Its Outbreak to the Capture of Lucknow
• Publisher: Aryan, New Delhi
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8173053316
• ISBN 13: 9788173053313
• Binding: Hardbound
• Edition: Reprint
• Condition: As New

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 ...Jl leave the palace (which is a perfect town inside), but kept up a Jro on us for some days (rum some inaccessible towers.". THE KCSIDENCY DVIUXO THE SIEGE. "We Imva now to describe the course of events at the Residency ubseqttent to the junction of Havelock's force (at which point Bnadier Inglis breaks off), and up to the arrival of Sir Colin CampKill. This gap in the story of the defence at Lucknow--a lefence which will rank in history with the defence of Malta, if Rhodes, and of Deny--we must fill up with personal narraive. The letter from which we now take some extracts is full of graphic touches calculated to awaken the most lively emotions of )ity and admiration. The letter has assumed the form of a diary, cept up with intermissions from the day Havelock's force entered ho Residency till the final exodus under Sir Colin Campbell. It ealiscs to our imaginations the life endured for months by Englsh men, women, and children, under incessant showers of musket jnd cannon balls from above, with occasional explosions of mines torn below. Delicate ladies and tender infants were compelled to inciter themselves in holes in the earth; and even there they were mperfectly secured from the shot and shell, and not at all from he mines of the besiegers. The wounded were destitute of the nost necessary medicines and dietetic comforts; even clean rags "or their wounds were not to ho had. Yet amid all these horrors, benevolence triumphed over selfish terrors. When we think of he ladies walking the hospital, tending ami soothing the sick inder such circumstances, it is as if the days had indeed come back when angola walked the earth. Where all the men were brave,:t might appear invidious to dwell exclusively on the deeds and sufferings of a few; but the d...