Indian Mutiny
| Indian Mutiny | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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:
- Mutiny at Berhampore 27 February
- Mutiny at Barrackpore 29 March
- Mutiny at Lucknow 1 May
- Mutiny at Meerut 10 May
- Mutiny at Fyzabad 10 May
- Mutiny at Delhi 11 May
- Mutiny at Ferozepore 13 May
- Mutiny at Meean Meer 13 May
- Mutiny at Allygurh 20 May
- Mutiny at Mynpoorie 23 May
- Mutiny at Nusseerabad 28 May
- Mutiny at Bareilly 31 May
- Mutiny at Saharunpore 2 June
- Mutiny at Benares 3 June
- Mutiny at Seetapore 4 June
- Mutiny at Jhansi 5 June
- Mutiny at Allahabad 6 June
- Mutiny at Sealkote 9 July
- Mutiny at Jhelum 17 July
Campaigns
For details of the campaigns during the mutiny see the following main articles
- Delhi Campaign May-Sept 1857
- Events at Lucknow May 1857-Mar 1858
- Events at Cawnpore Jun-Jul 1857
- Havelock's Campaign Jul-Sep 1857
- Showers' Movable Column Sep-Nov 1857
- Greathed's Movable Column Sep-Nov 1857
- Seaton's Movable Column Dec 1857- Oct 1858
- Trans-Gogra Campaign Nov 1857-Dec 1858
- Oude Campaign Dec 1857-Nov 1858
- Central India Campaign Dec 1857-Jan 1859
- Rohilcund Campaign Apr-May 1858
FIBIS resources
- Indian Mutiny Medal Roll (British Forces) 1857-1859 - a medal roll transcription with over 50,000 names of British Army soldiers awarded medals
- Supplement to The London Gazette - around 2000 names of Europeans killed or wounded by disaffected soldiers or local residents as reported in the London Gazette
- The Diary of a Medical Officer during the Great Indian Mutiny
Recommended Reading
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The FIBIS Google Books Library has books tagged: Indian Mutiny | |
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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
External Links
General
- Indian Mutiny 1857-59 The British Empire site
- Alphabetical list of Mutiny locations Google Books
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 Wikipedia
- Timeline of the Mutiny Wikipedia
- Chronological Table of Events Google Books
- Disposition of the Bengal Army January 1857 Google Books
- Mutiny at the Margins the University of Edinburgh’s website
- Catalogue of Resources in UK Libraries in conjunction with Mutiny at the Margins
- 1857-1858 The Great Rebellion pdf West Bengal Information and Cultural Affairs Dept. The article contains illustrations from the West Bengal State Archives
- VCs in the Indian Mutiny Wikipedia
- "Reflections from Lucknow on the Great Uprising of 1857" by Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones from the United Service Institution of India website.
Maps
- Schwartzberg Historical Atlas - Indian Mutiny Map
- Schwartzberg Historical Atlas - Administrative Divisions 1857
- Northern India in the Mutiny British Empire website
Historical newspapers and books online
- (British Library) British Newspapers Online - Sepoy Mutiny - Background context and links to free to view contemporary newspaper articles
- 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)
- The Mutiny of the Bengal Army by George Bruce Malleson (1858) (Google Books)
- 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)
- 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.
- 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 Volume 2 1898
- 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
- 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 2 by Charles Ball, 1858, is available on the Digital Library of India website. Index pages commence computer page 4.
- A history of the Indian Mutiny; reviewed and illustrated from original documents by G W Forrest CIE 1904-12 Volume I, Volume II, Volume III,
- Through the Mutiny, reminiscences of thirty years' active service and sport in India, 1854-83 by Thomas Nicholls Walker 1907 Archive.org