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The Mutiny of 1857 remains an event shrouded in mystery and intrigue. Even its very nature, whether it can be considered the first war of independence, is questioned. The causes remain many but rather elusive, the consequences even more so - did it ring the death toll of the British Empire, was it a mere speck of exaggerated trouble. This book serves as a tremendous gap-filler and demystifying agent. It begins with a background of the building of the British Raj ...
In writing this short History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 I have aimed at the compilation of work which, complete in itself, should narrate the causes as well as the consequences of a movement unforeseen, undreamt of, sudden and swift in its action, and which taxed to the utmost the energies of the British people. Preceding writers on the same subject, whilst dealing very amply with the consequences, have, with one exception, but dimly shadowed forth the causes. ...
