The Indian Mutiny started in 1857. For about a year Indians rebelled against the East India Company. British men, women and children were killed, the army took horrible revenge. An Act of ...

The war had ended. India was inching towards Independence, but a clear political road map and timeline were missing. The Muslim League had stepped up its agitation for Pakistan. It was a turbulent ...

The East India Company came to an end in outrage, war, and blood, the greatest cataclysm, the supremest tragedy of modern times. Dr. Fitchett's narrative fails to place the mutiny in its proper ...

Episode 6: Freedom. This last episode tells how a foreign multinational (the East India Company) thousands of miles away gradually and almost by chance took power over great swathes of the Indian ...

Intruders in the Dust. As a military record, the crushing of the sepoy mutiny seems as remote and exotic as the defeat of Hannibal’s war elephants. Yet the mutiny signaled the birth of modern India.

Last year the balance due India for the excess of the exports over the imports was $41,000,000. The specie importations have increased from $14,000,000 in 1846 to $62,000,000 in 1856. The present ...

That is 51 years before the better-known "sepoy mutiny" of 1857. Mr Karunanidhi's contention has much sympathy in the south of India, where historians and politicians complain that when it comes to ...

India celebrates the 150th anniversary next year of the Indian mutiny or "first war of independence", when Indian soldiers of the British army rebelled against their colonial masters. Conventional ...