Indian Mutiny of 1857

By Alex

.1.Ammunittion charges do not seem to have been the main issue or specific cause of the entire Mutiny, rather this incident more resembled a “straw that broke the camel’s back,” but that still is not exactly what it was because it would have happened anyways.

.Fears and concerns of mandatory conversion expressed by all parties

-Native discusses fear of uprising because of it, mentioned in Kazan Singh poem, Cape Argus article

.2.Rango Bapojeen was an Envoy between British and Indian governments. Worked with British politicians to expose the illegal things the East Indian Company was doing. Went back to India, fought the British alongside Mutineers

. 3. Petitions of native officers and men of 39th Reg Bengal NI expressing loyalty

            -Discuss sarcasm of it, Indians caught in the middle

.4.Cape Argus articles and how they discussed Indians compared to Africans. Seemed to have ranking system of “other” people

.5. Response of anti-imperialist Ireland is hopeful. Think Indians have a chance to win against British.

.British Guiana Newspaper expresses fear of ex-mutineers in their county in 1870. Feared they may have been the instigators and that was why they were there.

.6.British response memorialized their own victory. Clear because it is still called a mutiny which implies negativity.

.Indian folktales, discusses certain “characters” in tragic ways.

Links to websites:

http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/mutiny/texts.html

https://www.britannica.com/place/India/The-mutiny-and-great-revolt-of-1857-59

Bibliography:

• Spear, T.G. Percival. “The Mutiny and Great Revolt of 1857–59.” Encyclopedia Britannica , www.britannica.com/place/India/The-mutiny-and-great-revolt-of-1857-59.

• “Mutiny at the Margins: The Indian Uprising of 1857.” Mutiny at the Margins - The Indian Uprising of 1857, www.csas.ed.ac.uk/mutiny/texts.html.

- Petition by a native of Allahabad re belief that British Govt intended forcibly to convert the people of India to Christianity May 1858.

- Rango Bapujee, Rajah of Sattara: A Letter to the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, M.P., President of the Board of Control (London: G. Norman, 1852).

- Kazan Singh

-Delhi Gazette on September 29 th 1857.

-SOURCE IOLR F/4/2699 191782 Petitions of native officers and men of 39 th Reg Bengal NI expressing loyalty

-The Nation, 1857.

-SOURCE: IOLR MSS Eur A 180 Landon, P 1857 In Commemoration of the 50 th Anniversary of the Indian Mutiny, WH Smith and Son, London , 1907