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Offline OB

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A Mutiny Tidbit
« on: June 29, 2020, 10:26:21 AM »
I've been spending a bit of time researching the Indian Mutiny. 

I think that we really don't know half as much as we should about the conflict.  It cries out a scholar to do what Ampal Singh Sidhu did for the Sikh Wars. Anyhow poking about on Jstor is helping me find out a bit more.  Eventually, I hope to be able to write a few articles for my blog.

Here's something that I recently came across might be of interest.  The Wahabis who joined Bakht Khan at the siege of Delhi were conventionally armed.  That is to say they used the same muskets as the Sepoys.  Bakht Khan himself had decades of service in the Company Artillery and was from a family with royal connections.

Offline jambo1

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Re: A Mutiny Tidbit
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2020, 05:46:54 AM »
Nice little find, a project I am just starting out on so all information is great for me at the moment! :)

Offline OB

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Re: A Mutiny Tidbit
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2020, 10:18:57 AM »
Gad it was useful Jambo. 

WH Russell's Indian Mutiny Diary is well worth getting and very affordable last time I looked.  He covered the second half as it were for the Times of London and accompanied the British Army.

Offline Rogerc

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Re: A Mutiny Tidbit
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2020, 03:30:53 PM »
Fascinating history, look forward to what you dig up.
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My blog gapagnw.blogspot.co.uk

Offline OB

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Re: A Mutiny Tidbit
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2020, 10:44:02 AM »
Thanks Roger.  I think its going to be slow going.

Throughout the fighting daily newspapers were published in India and in Urdu naturally enough.  I'm sure there is much to learn there.  Presumably Indian scholars have already mined them as a source.

Currently I'm reading Malleson who wrote in 1897.  He had been in India and had seen it all coming.

 

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