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== External Links ==
== External Links ==
'''General'''
===General===
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/indiancampaigns/mutiny/mutiny.htm Indian Mutiny 1857-59] The British Empire site
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/indiancampaigns/mutiny/mutiny.htm Indian Mutiny 1857-59] The British Empire site
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YrAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Agra&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false Alphabetical list of Mutiny locations] Google Books
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YrAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Agra&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false Alphabetical list of Mutiny locations] Google Books
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*Rajeshkhilari’s [http://news.webshots.com/album/578755362tmUvFx  1857 - India's first war of independence Album of illustrations] Webshots.com
*Rajeshkhilari’s [http://news.webshots.com/album/578755362tmUvFx  1857 - India's first war of independence Album of illustrations] Webshots.com
*[http://sites.google.com/site/laurieletters/1-introduction Irregular Correspondence] is a collection of letters by the three eldest sons of John and Eliza Laurie, to their parents. Includes the letters from India 1858-1861, of Lieutenant Julius Laurie of the 34th Foot. (Website by William Dyson-Laurie)
*[http://sites.google.com/site/laurieletters/1-introduction Irregular Correspondence] is a collection of letters by the three eldest sons of John and Eliza Laurie, to their parents. Includes the letters from India 1858-1861, of Lieutenant Julius Laurie of the 34th Foot. (Website by William Dyson-Laurie)
'''Maps'''
 
===Maps===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/fullscreen.html?object=099 Schwartzberg Historical Atlas - Indian Mutiny Map]
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/fullscreen.html?object=099 Schwartzberg Historical Atlas - Indian Mutiny Map]
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/fullscreen.html?object=097 Schwartzberg Historical Atlas - Administrative Divisions 1857]
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/fullscreen.html?object=097 Schwartzberg Historical Atlas - Administrative Divisions 1857]
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/images3/northernindia1857.jpg Northern India in the Mutiny] British Empire website
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/images3/northernindia1857.jpg Northern India in the Mutiny] British Empire website


'''Historical newspapers and books online'''
===Historical newspapers and books online===
*[http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/page.do?page=/researchguide.jspx&docPage=topicguide/blcs_25.htm (British Library) British Newspapers Online - Sepoy Mutiny] - Background context and links to free to view contemporary newspaper articles
*[http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/page.do?page=/researchguide.jspx&docPage=topicguide/blcs_25.htm (British Library) British Newspapers Online - Sepoy Mutiny] - Background context and links to free to view contemporary newspaper articles
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=A10LAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&lr=#PPA208,M1 Military Divisions in India at the outbreak of the Mutiny] in ''The history of the Indian revolt and of the expeditions to Persia, China & Japan'' by George Dodd (Google Books)
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=A10LAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&lr=#PPA208,M1 Military Divisions in India at the outbreak of the Mutiny] in ''The history of the Indian revolt and of the expeditions to Persia, China & Japan'' by George Dodd (Google Books)
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=W3geAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''The Mutiny of the Bengal Army''] by George Bruce Malleson (1858) (Google Books)
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=W3geAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''The Mutiny of the Bengal Army''] by George Bruce Malleson (1858) (Google Books)
*''A History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-1858'' by John William Kaye Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/ahistorysepoywa01kayegoog#page/n6/mode/2up Volume 1] 1864, [http://www.archive.org/stream/ahistorysepoywa02kayegoog#page/n5/mode/2up Volume 2] 1874, [http://www.archive.org/stream/ahistorysepoywa04kayegoog#page/n6/mode/2up  Volume 3]  1876
*''History of the Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858: Commencing from the close of the second volume of Sir John Kaye's History of the Sepoy War'' by Colonel G.B. Malleson  Archive.org
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyindianmu01mallgoog#page/n8/mode/2up  Volume 1] 1878, [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindianm03mall#page/n5/mode/2up  Volume 3 (title History of the Indian Mutiny 1857-1859)] 1880
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/analyticalindext00pinciala#page/n3/mode/2up  ''Analytical index to Sir John W. Kaye's History of the Sepoy War and Col. G.B. Malleson's History of the Indian Mutiny''] by Frederic Pincott. 1880 Archive.org
*''Bulletins and other state intelligence. Compiled and arranged from the official documents published in the London Gazette''. These volumes, mainly the middle six, include information about the military events and contain lists of casualties during the Indian Mutiny. (refer FIBIS database, above) Published in these volumes 1859-1862. Google Books.
*''Bulletins and other state intelligence. Compiled and arranged from the official documents published in the London Gazette''. These volumes, mainly the middle six, include information about the military events and contain lists of casualties during the Indian Mutiny. (refer FIBIS database, above) Published in these volumes 1859-1862. Google Books.
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZMQsAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover  1857 Part 1, January to June],  [http://books.google.com/books?id=DNI1AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover  1857 Part 2, July to December], with [http://books.google.com/books?id=DNI1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA2378  Index under entry 'India Board']
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZMQsAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover  1857 Part 1, January to June],  [http://books.google.com/books?id=DNI1AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover  1857 Part 2, July to December], with [http://books.google.com/books?id=DNI1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA2378  Index under entry 'India Board']
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**[http://books.google.com/books?id=BloPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover  1859 Part 1, January to June], [http://books.google.com/books?id=odg1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1503  1859 Part 2, July to December] with [http://books.google.com/books?id=odg1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA2621 Index under entry 'India Office']
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=BloPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover  1859 Part 1, January to June], [http://books.google.com/books?id=odg1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1503  1859 Part 2, July to December] with [http://books.google.com/books?id=odg1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA2621 Index under entry 'India Office']
*[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/22098/pages/811 ''The London Gazette Extraordinary Wednesday, February 17, 1858''], (page 811) consisting of 34 pages relating to the Indian Mutiny. Includes "a [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/22098/pages/839 complete nominal roll] of officers, members of the Uncovenanted Service, and women and children of the garrison of Lucknow" (page 839). This [http://www.archive.org/stream/unitedservicema02pollgoog#page/n239/mode/1up link] <ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/unitedservicema02pollgoog#page/n239/mode/1up page 230 footnote] "Notes on the History and Services of the Thirty-Second Regiment" ''Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal'' 1880 Part 3</ref> advises there were corrections in subsequent Gazettes
*[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/22098/pages/811 ''The London Gazette Extraordinary Wednesday, February 17, 1858''], (page 811) consisting of 34 pages relating to the Indian Mutiny. Includes "a [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/22098/pages/839 complete nominal roll] of officers, members of the Uncovenanted Service, and women and children of the garrison of Lucknow" (page 839). This [http://www.archive.org/stream/unitedservicema02pollgoog#page/n239/mode/1up link] <ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/unitedservicema02pollgoog#page/n239/mode/1up page 230 footnote] "Notes on the History and Services of the Thirty-Second Regiment" ''Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal'' 1880 Part 3</ref> advises there were corrections in subsequent Gazettes
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=p8QnAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8&dq=Trimmoo&ei=KtCGSa_GBpr2McXMpIoI#PPR8,M1 Disposition of Troops in the Punjab prior to the Mutiny] in ''The Crisis in the Punjab, from the 10th of May Until the Fall of Delhi'' by Frederic Henry Cooper (Google Books)
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=c1lNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA138 "No. CXVII—Mutinies in India (Bengal): Further Papers (No. 6, in continuation of No. 4,) relative to the Mutinies in the East Indies" etc], including [http://books.google.com/books?id=c1lNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA203 "Central Provinces"], pages 326-446 (computer pages 138-258) 'Series F British India, Colonies etc' ''Annals of British Legislation, Volume 5'' edited by Leone Levi 1859 Google Books
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=U9YSAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA4-PA1#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Parliamentary papers, Volume 50'' - East India (Prize Property)] HMSO (1860) containing official correspondence on prize captured by HM and Company forces during Indian Mutiny actions.  Details discussion on the origin and distribution of ten different prize funds. Google Books
*Joseph Fahrer of the Bengal Medical Service was the Residency Surgeon at Lucknow from 1853 and attended Sir Henry Lawrence when mortally wounded. His account of the Mutiny period is from [http://archive.org/stream/recollectionsofm1900fayr#page/130/mode/2up ''Recollections of My Life''], page 130 by Surgeon-General  Sir Joseph Fayrer 1900 Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/fortyoneyearsin00unkngoog#page/n100/mode/1up ''Forty One Years in India: From subaltern to commander-in-chief Volume 1'']  by Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar 1897 Chapter 6 onwards. Archive.org  [http://www.archive.org/stream/fortyoneyearsin02robegoog#page/n11/mode/1up ''Volume 2''] 1898
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/lieutenantgener00hervgoog#page/n7/mode/1up ''Lieutenant General Crommelin, C.B.: Royal (Bengal) Engineers; a Memoir and a Retrospect in the Year of the Mutiny in India''] by Charles Hervey 1887 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_03108#page/n33/mode/2up, ''Life and travels of James Fisher: an autobiography''], page 32 by James Fisher 1890 Archive.org.  During the Indian Mutiny the author belonged to a British Army regiment, 2nd Battalion Military Train, whose duty was a mounted transport. (This regiment was later part of the Royal Army Service Corps  and nowadays the Royal Logistic Corps)
*''The History of the Indian Mutiny'', Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Charles Ball, 1858, are available on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. Index pages commence  computer page 756, Volume 1 and computer page 4, Volume 2
*''The History of the Indian Mutiny'', Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Charles Ball, 1858, are available on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. Index pages commence  computer page 756, Volume 1 and computer page 4, Volume 2
:Google Books has Volume 1, and part of Volume 2, classified as Volumes 1-6, volume 5 missing as follows:
:Google Books has Volume 1, and part of Volume 2, classified as Volumes 1-6, volume 5 missing as follows:
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::Volume 5: Not apparently digitised
::Volume 5: Not apparently digitised
::Volume 6: [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VeRCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA270 Images], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VeRCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA305 page 305], continues to [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VeRCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA496 page 496] last available page. There appears to be more text missing.
::Volume 6: [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VeRCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA270 Images], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VeRCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA305 page 305], continues to [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VeRCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA496 page 496] last available page. There appears to be more text missing.
*''A History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-1858'' by John William Kaye Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/ahistorysepoywa01kayegoog#page/n6/mode/2up Volume 1] 1864, [http://www.archive.org/stream/ahistorysepoywa02kayegoog#page/n5/mode/2up Volume 2] 1874, [http://www.archive.org/stream/ahistorysepoywa04kayegoog#page/n6/mode/2up  Volume 3]  1876
*''History of the Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858: Commencing from the close of the second volume of Sir John Kaye's History of the Sepoy War'' by Colonel G.B. Malleson  Archive.org
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyindianmu01mallgoog#page/n8/mode/2up  Volume 1] 1878, [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindianm03mall#page/n5/mode/2up  Volume 3 (title History of the Indian Mutiny 1857-1859)] 1880
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/analyticalindext00pinciala#page/n3/mode/2up  ''Analytical index to Sir John W. Kaye's History of the Sepoy War and Col. G.B. Malleson's History of the Indian Mutiny''] by Frederic Pincott. 1880 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/historyofindian00holm#page/n5/mode/2up ''A History of the Indian Mutiny and of the disturbances which accompanied it among the civil population''] by T. Rice Holmes 5th edition revised 1898, originally published 1883. Archive.org. [http://archive.org/stream/historyofindian00holm#page/638/mode/2up Index], page 639
*''Selections from the letters, despatches and other state papers preserved in the Military department of the government of India, 1857-58'' edited by George W. Forrest Archive.org  
*''Selections from the letters, despatches and other state papers preserved in the Military department of the government of India, 1857-58'' edited by George W. Forrest Archive.org  
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromle01forruoft#page/n7/mode/2up  Volume 1] 1893, [http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromle03forruoft#page/n7/mode/2up  Volume 3] 1902, [http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromle04forruoft#page/n5/mode/2up  Volume 4] 1912
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromle01forruoft#page/n7/mode/2up  Volume 1] 1893, [http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromle03forruoft#page/n7/mode/2up  Volume 3] 1902, [http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromle04forruoft#page/n5/mode/2up  Volume 4] 1912
*''A History of the Indian Mutiny; reviewed and illustrated from original documents'' by G W Forrest CIE 1904-12 Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindianm01forr#page/n7/mode/2up Volume I], [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindianm02forr#page/n7/mode/2up Volume II], [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindianm03forr#page/n9/mode/2up Volume III],
*''A History of the Indian Mutiny; reviewed and illustrated from original documents'' by G W Forrest CIE 1904-12 Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindianm01forr#page/n7/mode/2up Volume I], [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindianm02forr#page/n7/mode/2up Volume II], [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindianm03forr#page/n9/mode/2up Volume III].
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=p8QnAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8&dq=Trimmoo&ei=KtCGSa_GBpr2McXMpIoI#PPR8,M1 Disposition of Troops in the Punjab prior to the Mutiny] in ''The Crisis in the Punjab, from the 10th of May Until the Fall of Delhi'' by Frederic Henry Cooper (Google Books)
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=c1lNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA138 "No. CXVII—Mutinies in India (Bengal): Further Papers (No. 6, in continuation of No. 4,) relative to the Mutinies in the East Indies" etc], including [http://books.google.com/books?id=c1lNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA203 "Central Provinces"], pages 326-446 (computer pages 138-258) 'Series F British India, Colonies etc' ''Annals of British Legislation, Volume 5'' edited by Leone Levi 1859 Google Books
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=U9YSAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA4-PA1#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Parliamentary papers, Volume 50'' - East India (Prize Property)] HMSO (1860) containing official correspondence on prize captured by HM and Company forces during Indian Mutiny actions.  Details discussion on the origin and distribution of ten different prize funds. Google Books
*Joseph Fahrer of the Bengal Medical Service was the Residency Surgeon at Lucknow from 1853 and attended Sir Henry Lawrence when mortally wounded. His account of the Mutiny period is from [http://archive.org/stream/recollectionsofm1900fayr#page/130/mode/2up ''Recollections of My Life''], page 130 by Surgeon-General  Sir Joseph Fayrer 1900 Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/fortyoneyearsin00unkngoog#page/n100/mode/1up ''Forty One Years in India: From subaltern to commander-in-chief Volume 1'']  by Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar 1897 Chapter 6 onwards. Archive.org  [http://www.archive.org/stream/fortyoneyearsin02robegoog#page/n11/mode/1up ''Volume 2''] 1898
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/lieutenantgener00hervgoog#page/n7/mode/1up ''Lieutenant General Crommelin, C.B.: Royal (Bengal) Engineers; a Memoir and a Retrospect in the Year of the Mutiny in India''] by Charles Hervey 1887 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_03108#page/n33/mode/2up, ''Life and travels of James Fisher: an autobiography''], page 32 by James Fisher 1890 Archive.org.  During the Indian Mutiny the author belonged to a British Army regiment, 2nd Battalion Military Train, whose duty was a mounted transport. (This regiment was later part of the Royal Army Service Corps  and nowadays the Royal Logistic Corps)
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/throughmutinyrem00walkrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Through the Mutiny, reminiscences of thirty years' active service and sport in India, 1854-83''] by Thomas Nicholls Walker 1907 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/throughmutinyrem00walkrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Through the Mutiny, reminiscences of thirty years' active service and sport in India, 1854-83''] by Thomas Nicholls Walker 1907 Archive.org
*[http://oudl.osmania.ac.in/handle/OUDL/2228 ''Fatehgarh And The Mutiny''] by F R Cosens (and C L Wallace) 1933 Osmania University Digital Library [OUDL]
*[http://oudl.osmania.ac.in/handle/OUDL/2228 ''Fatehgarh And The Mutiny''] by F R Cosens (and C L Wallace) 1933 Osmania University Digital Library [OUDL]

Revision as of 05:11, 24 July 2012

Indian Mutiny
10 May 1857-19 April 1959
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
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Location: Gangetic Plain and Central India
Combatants:
British Army
East India Company Armies
Bengal Presidency regiments
Result: Rebellion crushed
Medals: Indian Mutiny Medal
Clasps: Delhi, Defence of Lucknow, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow, Central India
Links:
Category:
Delhi Campaign
Events at Cawnpore
Havelock's Campaign
Showers' Movable Column
Greathed's Movable Column
Seaton's Movable Column
Trans-Gogra Campaign
Oude Campaign
Central India Campaign
Rohilcund Campaign


Preamble

The Indian Mutiny is also known as India's First War of Independence, the Great Rebellion, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Revolt of 1857, the Uprising of 1857 and the Sepoy Mutiny.

The rebellion was almost exclusively confined to the regiments in the Bengal Presidency. In 1857 the Bengal Army strength was as follows:

Cavalry Infantry Artillery Sappers Total
British troops 1,366 17,003 3,063 Nil 21,432
Indian troops 19,288 112,052 4,734 1,497 137,571
Totals 20,654 129,055 7,797 1,497 159,003

Outbreaks

Details of the outbreak of mutiny in various locations can be found in the following articles:

Campaigns

For details of the campaigns during the mutiny see the following main articles

Volunteer force

  • The Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry was a volunteer force raised in July 1857 after the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny and disbanded in 1859.
  • The Meerut Light Horse was a volunteer unit formed in 1857 at the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny. Also known as the Meerut Volunteer Horse and the Meerut Volunteer Cavalry, which had originally been formed as the District Volunteer Force. It was disbanded in 1861.

FIBIS resources

Casualties

  • Available at the British Library is the publication, Casualty Roll for the Indian Mutiny, 1857-59, compiled by I. T. Taverner, published by J. B. Hayward & Son (1983), Suffolk, England (ISBN: 0 903754 98 3) pp.205. It contains name, rank and regimental number of every casualty (fatal or otherwise) of HM's (incl. Naval Brigade) & HEIC forces (by Presidency, incl. Indian Medical Service and Ecclesiastical Establishment); location and date where/when/how injured. A useful chronology of the Mutiny events and bibliography is appended.[1]

Recommended Reading

The FIBIS Google Books Library
has books tagged:
Indian Mutiny

See also the Military reading list.

"Indian Mutiny" by Saul David 2002 ISBN 0141005548

"My Indian Mutiny Diary" by WH Russell 1967 ISBN 0527781207

"The Last Mughal" by William Dalrymple 2006 ISBN 978-0747587262

"The Great Uprising in India" by Rosie Llewellyn Jones 2007 ISBN 978-1843833048

"Angels of Albion - women of the Indian Mutiny" by Jane Robinson 1996 ISBN 978-0670 846702

'The Indian 'Mutiny' 1857-58 - A Guide to source material in the India Office Library and Records by Rosemary Seton ISBN 0-7123-0041-4

References

  1. By email to User:Maureene dated 14 November 2010

External Links

General

  • Catalogue of Resources in UK Libraries in conjunction with Mutiny at the Margins

Maps

Historical newspapers and books online

Google Books has Volume 1, and part of Volume 2, classified as Volumes 1-6, volume 5 missing as follows:
Volume 1: Images, Cover page,which advises "Illustrated with Battle Scenes, Views of Places, Portraits and Maps, Beautifully Engraved On Steel" Page 1 of text, continues to page 184
Volume 2: Images, page 185, continues to page 376
Volume 3: Images, page 377, continues to page 568
Volume 4: Images, page 569, continues to page 648, end of (original) Volume 1. Page 1 of (original) Volume 2, continues to page 112
Volume 5: Not apparently digitised
Volume 6: Images, page 305, continues to page 496 last available page. There appears to be more text missing.

References

  1. page 230 footnote "Notes on the History and Services of the Thirty-Second Regiment" Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal 1880 Part 3