The 1857 Event: Mutiny or Beginnings of a Fight for Independence?
- The 1857 Indian Mutiny (also known as the Sepoy Rebellion, the Great Mutiny, and the Revolt of 1857)
- The Epic of Race: The Indian Mutiny, 1857
- Blind Terror: The 1857 Rebellion in Pakistan
British Interpretations
- Representations of the Indian Mutiny in Victorian Higher Journalism
- The texts of eighteen British articles about the Mutiny
- Collins's "A Sermon for Sepoys"
- Memories of the Mutiny (1909)
- Margaret Harkness visits Cawnpore, the Site of Atrocities
- William Dalrymple's revisionist account in The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 (review)
- Stuart Flinders' Cult of a Dark Hero: Nicholson of Delhi (review)
Places Associated with the Mutiny
- Jhelum, in the Punjab
- Humayun's Tomb, Delhi
- Red Fort, Delhi
- The British Army Barracks in Red Fort, Delhi
- St James' Church, Delhi
- Flagstaff Tower, Delhi
- Mutiny Memorial, Delhi
Fictional Representations and Allusions to the Mutiny
- Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners"
- The Moonstone and British India
- Collins's representation of the 'cursed Indian jewel': Orientalism in the sensation novel
- Saray Tytler's “What Hester Durham lived for”
- The Imperial Context of "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners"
Corporal and Private of the Black Watch — 1857 Indian Mutiny. [Click on thumbnail for larger image]
Monuments and Memorials
The Mutiny and the Visual Arts
- Punch on the 1857 Mutiny (9 cartoons)
- Thomas Morten's “They clung around Hester where she stood like a rock in a stormy sea”
- Abraham Solomon's The Flight from Lucknow
- The Suttee Chowra Ghât, or landing place — scene of the second massacre
- "Hole in the wall of the Residency made by shell that wounded Sir Henry Lawrence July 2 1857" (1903)
- Fugitive British officers and their families attacked by mutineers
- Massacre in the boats off Cawnpore
- Massacre of English Officers and their Wives at Jhangi
- Capture of the Guns by the Highlanders before Cawnpore
- Retribution by Edward Armitage
- Assault of Delhi: capture of the Cashmere Gate
- Cavalrymen, India 1858
- Monument to Major Hodson (1821-1858)
- Captain Sir William Peel (1824–1858) — a portrait of Peel’s son during the Indian Mutiny of 1857
- J. H. Foley's The Cashmere Bastion, Delhi. September 15, 1857
- Execution of mutinous Sepoys on the parade, Peshawur
- Execution of mutinous Sepoys: Blown from canons
- Veterans of the Mutiny at the Durbar on the Accession of Edward VII (1902)
- Mutinous Sepoys
- Repulse of a Sortie
- Orlando Norie's Mutineers about to be Blown from Guns by Bengal Horse Artillery
- Louis Desanges's Surgeon Anthony Dickson Home and Assistant Surgeon William Bradshaw, 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) (Light Infantry), Lucknow, 1857
The Mutiny and Popular Music
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Last modified 19 December 2018