The Indian Mutiny of 1857

The Indian mutiny of 1857 refers to a rebellion in India against the rule of the British east India Company, during May 1857 to June 1858. The rebellion began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company’s army on 10 May 1857, in the cantonment of the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and the Delhi region. The rebellion posed a serious threat to East India Company power. The rebellion is also known as India’s First War of Independence.

Contents: Preface. 1. Introductory. 2. The conspirators. 3. The first mutterings of the storm. 4. The spread of the epidemic. 5. Barrackpur, Calcutta and the North-west to the 9th of May. 6. The revolt at Mirath and the Seizure of Delhi. 7. The effect, throughout India, of the Seizure of Delhi. 8. The progress of the insurrection in the North-west in May and June. 9. The March to Delhi. 10. Kanhpur, Lakhnao, and Allahabad. 11. Calcutta in June and July. 12. The leaguer of Kanhpur. 13. Neill at Banaras and Allahabad–have Lock’s recovery of Kanhpur. 14. The residency of Lakhnao after Chinhat–Havelock’s first attempts to relieve it. 15. Calcutta and Western Bihar in July and August. 16. The first relief of the Lakhnao residency. 17. The leaguer of Agra. 18. Events in the Sagar and Narbada territories, Central India, Rajputana, the Mirath Districts, Rohilkhand, and the Punjab. 19. The siege and storming of Delhi. 20. From Delhi to Agra and Kanhpur–Sir Colin Campbell at Kanhpur. 21. The second relief of the Lakhnao residency–Windham and the Gwaliar contingent. 22. Sir Colin Campbell recovers the Duab. 23. Eastern Bengal, Eastern Bihar, Azamgarh, Allahabad, and Eastern Oudh. 24. The storming of Lakhnao. 25. Azamgarh–reconquest of Rohilkhand, of Oudh, of the Azamgarh and Western Bihar Districts. 26. Western and Central India. 27. The last embers of the revolt. 28. Conclusion. Index.