Revisiting the Revolt of 1857
Contents: Introduction. 1. The revolt of 1857 and the Wahhabi movement : a case study of Bihar/Sumanta Niyogi. 2. The four rebels of Jagadishpur/Rasmi Choudhury. 3. The August uprisings in the Bombay Presidency/Ranjit Sen. 4. Public executions during 1857 : the cases of Gond Raja, Shankar Shah and his son Raghunath Shah (18 September 1857)/Abhijit Dutta. 5. The first flicker of the ‘revolt’ of 1857 at Berhampore and the role of the last Nawab Nazim-Feradoon Jah/Rajarshi Chakrabarty. 6. Mangal Pandey : a whirling hero in the history of India/Soma Sardar. 7. Prisoners, Amlahs and sepoys in Bengal/Mrinal Kumar Basu. 8. An analysis of the religious dimension of the revolt of 1857/Pradip Chattopadhyay. 9. Inception of secular politics : in the context of mutiny of 1857/S.M. Sarwar Morshed. 10. An American missionary on the revolt of 1857/Nikhiles Guha. 11. 1857 and the Bengali press (1857-1900)/Gautam Basu. 12. Immediate aftermath of the revolt of 1857 in Bengal : responses of the British administration and the press/Jayasree Mukherjee. 13. Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray and the great revolt of 1857/Chittabrata Palit. 14. 1857 : the crisis of indigenous education in Midnapur/Subrata Kr. Mal. 15. Emergence of the Rani in Bengali literature/Karabi Mitra. 16. Popular history of organised resistance (Sangathit Pratirodh Ka Jan-Aitihasik Sandarbh)/Devendra Choubey. 17. Cinematic representations of the revolt of 1857 : an overview/Urvi Mukhopadhyay. 18. The Indian mutiny of 1857 and the colonial health policy : from army health to public health/Kabita Ray.
“The 150 anniversary of the ‘Sepoy Mutiny’ presented an opportunity to scholars to explore its hitherto virgin facets. In this context, the Corpus Research Institute organised a seminar ‘Rethinking and Reinventing the Revolt of 1857’ and the papers presented at the seminar are now being published for public perusal.
Reputed scholars as well as young researchers have viewed the phenomenon from different angles ranging from vernacular literature, folk-lore, archival materials and cinematograph to present a kaleidoscopic view of the great upheaval.” (jacket)
