Indian War of Independence 1857
Here you can download The Indian War of Independence 1857 in PDF format or read online. Most historians, British as well as Indian, have described and dismissed the rising of 1857 as a ‘Sepoy Munity’ or at best ‘The Indian Mutiny’. Indian revolution is on the other hand, and national minded leaders thinkers have regarded it as a planned and organized political and military rising aimed at destroying the British power in India.
Indian War of Independence 1857 Notes
Mr. Sawarkar’s is an attempt to look at the incidents of 1857 from the Indian point of view. A leading revolutionary himself was attracted and inspired by the burning zeal, the heroism, bravery, suffering, and tragic fate of the leaders of 1857, and he decided to re-interpret the story and to relate it in full with the help of all the material available to him at the time. He spent days and months at the India Office Library studying the period.
Finally, his work was published in 1909, under the title “The Indian War of Independence –1857”. The full story of its publication and eventual fate is related, at length, elsewhere in this volume. We shall only mention here that its entry into India was banned by the Government even before it was published. This ban was finally lifted by the Congress Government of Bombay in May 1946, and this is the first authorized edition of the book to be published in India.
Table of Contents
- SWADHARMA & SWARAJ
- THE CHAIN OF CAUSES
- NANA SAHIB & LAXMI BAI
- AYODHYA
- ADING FUEL TO FIRE
- THE SACRIFICIAL FIRE
- SECRET ORGANISATION
- SHAHID MANGAL PANDAY
- MEERUT
- D E L H I
- THE INTERLUDE AND THE PUNJAB
- ALIGARH & NASIRABAD
- RIHILKHAND
- BENARES & ALLAHABAD
- CAWNPORE & JHANSI
- O U D H
- THE FIGHT IN DELHI
- HAVELOCK
- BEHAR
- DELHI FALLS
- LUCKNOW
- TATIA TOPE
- THE FALL OF LUCKNOW
- KUMAR SINGH AND AMAR SINGH
- MOULVIE AHMAD SHAH
- RANI LAKSHMI BAI
- A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW
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