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Indian Rebellion of 1857

Rising in 1857 of the Company's sepoys and, in Oudh, of landholders, put down by 1858-60; British writers call it the Mutiny, Sayyid Ahmad Khan wrote of the Revolt.

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1857
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  • East India Company the army that rose was its army; Sayyid Ahmad Khan says men thought it had broken its treaties Primary record 12

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    Lyall: the rising spread through the northern provinces.

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  1. 1857 Indian Rebellion of 1857
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  1. History of India, vol. 8, ch. 18: India under the Crown, 1858-1907 (A. C. Lyall), History of India, ed. A. V. W. Jackson (text via ibiblio), 1907. Scholarship & press
    the native army, which for a hundred years had shared all our triumphs and reverses in war, rose against us, and was overpowered after a desperate struggle
    In Oudh the great landholders set up the standard of rebellion
  2. The Causes of the Indian Revolt (Sayyid Ahmad Khan; written in Urdu in 1858, English translation of 1873), Sayyid Ahmad Khan (text via Frances Pritchett, Columbia University), 1873. Primary record
    all agreed in thinking that the Honourable East India Company had acted in defiance of its treaties, and in contempt of the word which it had pledged
    The non-admission of a native as a member into the Legislative Council was the original cause of the out-break.
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