A History of the Great Revolt (In 3 Volumes)

The story of 1857 revolt is written with profuse blood and tars. For once India seemed to have woken up as a determined, united nation. Through a series of inter-related uprisings, she almost succeeded in banishing the conquering British merchants out of India. History, however, had something else in store. The war of independence which promisingly began in Barrackpore ended in an enormous tragedy at Delhi. There a lowly British subaltern accepted the surrender of the last Mughal emperor, heralding the total extinction of history’s most illustraious dynasty. It also marked the beginning of the full-fledged British rule of the subcontinent for the next one and a half century. A History of the Great Revolt is a historian’s account of the events. He tells the truth as the found it buried under the surface of official and unofficial evidence, even at the risk of exciting controversy. His monumental inquiry takes us back to the conquest of Punjab in 1845-46 and the annexation of Avadh in 1856. Every event and every important character comes back alive as he narrates, step by step, the successive conquents of the British and the indifferent resistance by the sons o the soil. Unlike the traditional documented history books with long references and footnotes, the present work is a lucid, easy to read description. It unfolds history matter-of-factly like in a grand historical film. However, nowhere does it depart from the straight path of history as the author discovered it by long painstaking research. In three Volumes, A History of The Great Revolt 1857-58, is a significant work of Indian history to be read and referred to by academic and lay readers alike.