...The first section of this chapter describes the administration of India under the East India Company. The second section discusses the economic ruination of India. The third section considers changes in various policies. The fourth section examines the Great Revolt of 1857. The British were much...

...This book recounts the story of the Indian freedom struggle from the Great Revolt of 1857 and the attainment of independence in 1947. While mentioning most of the principal actors and events, the volume focuses more on the aims and development of Indian independence rather than on personalities...

... controversy. The last section discusses the Indian National Congress. The brutal suppression of the Revolt of 1857 was the cause of much enmity against the British. Between 1858 and 1905 British rule in India was at its strongest. England had become the centre of an empire that included one-quarter...

... of both conceptions of sovereignty and the workings of a popular politics, tracing their final manifestation in the great revolt of 1857. East India Company Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Nadir Shah non cooperation movement of Gandhi North India politics Rebellion of 1857 “Mutiny” Sarkar Jadunath...

...This chapter discusses the nature and profound implications of the discursive rupture caused by the political upheaval of the Revolt of 1857. It argues that the transfer of the government of India from the Company to the imperial monarch in the wake of the Revolt resulted in major discursive...

... Red Fort Bahadur Shah Zafar Emperor Qutub Saheb Urdu Bazaar Subh ul Asha diwan khana hall of audience Aasar us Sanadid Shah Abdul Aziz khaneqahs tombs of saints mazaar mausoleum Shah Ghulam Ali Shah Abdul Qadir Maulana Syed Ahmad Shaheed Ain i Akbari Meena Bazaar Ghalib Poetry Revolt...

... came the revolt of 1857, which shook the foundations of the British rule in northern India. The echoes of the Mutiny were heard in Kolhapur on 31 July 1857, when about 200 men of the 27th Native Infantry plundered the treasury and attacked the living quarters of British officers. The last armed revolt...