REQUIRED WORK:

Barbara D. and Thomas R. Metcalf, "The East India Company Raj, 1772-1850"  and "Revolt, the Modern State, and Colonized Subjects, 1848-1885,"  in A Concise History of India, Chapters 3 (pp. 55-90) and 4 (pp. 91-122).

*Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, "The Causes of the Indian Revolt"  (1859), in the translation of 1873. In History of the Bijnor Rebellion, translated with notes and introduction by Hafeez Malik and Morris Dembo (Delhi: Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli, 1982), pp.147-195. BUTLER RESERVE. Also: the 1873 translation as part of a "study site" made by FWP. Some IE users apparently cannot open this, but Firefox works fine. Or if you prefer, here's a plain-vanilla version that everybody can open: *plain version*

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POSSIBLE PAPER TOPIC SEVEN:

The same volume, History of the Bijnor Rebellion, also contains (pp. 1-143)  Sir Sayyid's account of the rebellion as he personally lived through it, as an officer in the Company's service. He was posted in Bijnor district, in U.P., and he reports on the events there with great local detail. To what extent does the analysis offered in "The Causes of the Indian Revolt" apply to what happened in Bijnor? What, if anything, does this account reveal about Sir Sayyid's personal feelings and emotions? What insights does it add to his more general analysis? Source: History of the Bijnor Rebellion, translated with notes and introduction by Hafeez Malik and Morris Dembo (Delhi: Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli, 1982). Available *on this site*, or through BUTLER RESERVE.
 

 
 FURTHER RESOURCES:

*Jacques Pouchepadass, "Lucknow Besieged (1857): Feminine  Records of the Event and the Victorian Mind on India."  Graff, pp. 91-113.
 

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

*William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal. London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007. Remarkable anecdotal accounts of life inside Delhi during the Rebellion.

*Christopher Hibbert, The Great Mutiny: India 1857. Penguin Books 1978. This has been called, and rightly, "by far the best single-volume description of the Mutiny yet written."

*Ainslie T. Embree, India in 1857: the Revolt against Foreign Rule. Delhi: Chanakya Publications, 1987.
 

ONLINE ARTICLES:

Troy Downs, "Host of Midian: The Chapati Circulation and the Indian Revolt of 1857-58": on the CU website.

Peter Marshall, "The British Presence in India Before and After 1857," an illustrated presentation on the BBC website.

Social Scientist 26, 196-99 (Jan.-Apr. 1998), a special issue devoted to 1857, ed. by Irfan Habib: online through DSAL.

Sabyasachi Dasgupta, "The Rebel Army in 1857," Economic and Political Weekly 42,19 (May 12, 2007): on the CU website.

Iqtidar Alam Khan, "The Gwalior Contingent in 1857-8: A Study of the Organization and Ideology of the Sepoy Rebels," in Social Scientist 26, 196-99 (Jan.-Apr. 1998), pp. 53-75: online through DSAL.

Rudrangshu Mukherjee, "The Reluctant Rebel: Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi," Manushi: on the Manushi website.

*"India and its Native Princes," author not identified. Scribner's Monthly: an Illustrated Magazine for the People, Nov. 1875 - Apr. 1876), pp. 65-79:  at the Cornell Univ. library site.

*Amrita Lal Roy, "English Rule in India," in The North American Review (New York) vol. 142 (1886), pp. 356-370:  at the Cornell Univ. library site.

*R. D. Mackenzie, "At the Court of a Native Prince," in The Century Magazine LVII,5 (March 1899), pp. 641-650:  at the Cornell Univ. library site.

"The City of Lucknow,"  in Harper's Weekly; A Journal of Civilization (New York) 2,54 (January 9, 1858), pp. 24-26. Go through the CU libraries connection for access to the site.  Then navigate by date and page numbers. The pages can be displayed in large format for easy reading.
 

WEBSITES:

*A website devoted to the events of 1857:  at geocities.com.

*The Harappa website's excellent photo index page, the single best site for access to nineteenth-century Indian photographs (especially the Hawkshaw collection):  on the Harappa website.

*A website on the Indian "princely states":  at Winthrop College.

*Portraits of the major princes of India as of 1873:  in Harper's Weekly, March 8, 1873, pp. 192-193:  start with the CU entry portal and navigate there by year, month, and page.