War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma

by Christopher Herbert

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On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain, where the uprising against British rule in India was often portrayed as a clash of civilization and barbarity demanding merciless retribution. Although by twentieth-century standards the number...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691143307

ISBN13:9780691143309

Release Date:November 2009

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.01 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.7" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Asia Criticism & Theory England English Literature Europe History History & Criticism India Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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