FITZ GERALD LEE (J.) &
RADCLIFFE (F.W.)
For Staff College Candidates. The Indian Mutiny.
LESSONS FROM THE INDIAN MUTINY
This history of the Indian Mutiny was produced for staff college candidates and the text is organised in the manner of a text book.
This highly informative work includes chapters on the causes of the mutiny (relaxing of discipline, religion and caste, politics); the Sepoy Army; military resources in India in 1857; the Outbreak of the Mutiny; the Actions of Canning and Anson; the Spread of the Mutiny to the Punjab; Affairs in Calcutta, Bengal, Rajputana, and Central India; the Northwest Provinces; the Siege and Capture of Delhi; the Advance to Cawnpore; the Siege of Lucknow; Agra; and the Second Siege of Lucknow.
It reflects a rather patronising attitude toward the Sepoys and provides not just the British understanding of events but also the narrative which they intended to present.
Scarce: OCLC locates copies at the University of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Oxford.
