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Books
Aftermath of the Revolt: India 1857-1870 by Thomas R. Metcalf (Princeton, 1964)
Awadh in Revolt, 1857-1858: A Study of Popular Resistance by Rudrangshu Mukherjee (Delhi, 1984)
'India 1818-1860: The Two Faces of Colonialism' by D. A. Washbrook, published in Andrew Porter, ed., The Oxford History of the British Empire, III, The Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1999)
Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal (London, 1998)
The New Cambridge History of India, II. 1, Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire by C. A. Bayly (Cambridge, 1988)
The Peasant Armed: The Indian Revolt of 1857 edited by C. A. Bayly (Oxford, 1986)
Links
The Oriental and India Office Collections in the British Library provides access to material relating to all the cultures of Asia and North Africa and the European interaction with them.
The National Army Museum, Chelsea has information specifically about the Indian mutiny.
The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, has a permanent exhibition on the Indian army.
Places to visit
The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Clock Tower Yard, Temple Meads, Bristol, BS1 6QH, will open its galleries on 26 September 2002. There will be a temporary exhibition, called 'India: Pioneering Photographs, 1850-1900' during 2002. Meanwhile, inquiries to see the collections of photographs and documentary archives or to use the oral history archive are welcome (telephone: 0117 925 4980).
About the author
Professor Peter Marshall is Professor Emeritus at King's College, London University, where he was Rhodes Professor of Imperial History from 1981 until his retirement in 1993. He is the author of a number of books on the early history of British India and was editor of The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire (Cambridge, 1996; paperback edition, 2001) and of the second volume, The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1998) of The Oxford History of the British Empire. He was President of the Royal Historical Society, 1996-2000.
Published: 2002-06-01
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