Abstract

War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma by Christopher Herbert. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. 334. $35.00 cloth. The First War of Independence, the Sepoy Rebellion, the Indian Mu tiny: the lack of consensus about what to call the uprising that began as a mutiny of sepoys—South Asian soldiers in the East India Compa ny's army—in 1857 suggests the on going conflict over a battle the causes and consequences of which remain fraught in several national imaginations. This war spread be yond the soldiers with whom it be gan to the civilian population and took more than a year to fully sup press. Christopher Herbert's War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Vic torian Trauma is only partially about this conflict. It seems to want to

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