Shaswati Mazumdar, Insurgent Sepoys. Europe views the Revolt of 1857

Abstract

The main goal of this book is to obviate to “the lack of attention to the international dimensions of the [1857] revolt” (p. 4). As such, it offers “a first look at some of these European responses” (ibid.) and has the merit of adopting a very wide lens, affording considerable attention to novelistic interpretations of the events – often intended for a mass audience – that until recent times would have been considered unworthy as objects of serious academic study. The result is a fascinating ...