Tale of Two Revolts India's Mutiny and the American Civil War

Name: Tale of Two Revolts India's Mutiny and the American Civil War
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ISBN: 9781906598853

ISBN-10: 1906598851

ISBN-13: 9781906598853

Edition: 2011

Authors: Rajmohan Gandhi

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Two wars - the 1857 Revolt in India and the American Civil War -seemingly fought for very different reasons, occurred at opposite endsof the globe in the middle of the nineteenth century. But they wereboth fought in a world still dominated by Great Britain and the battlecry in both conflicts was freedom.Rajmohan Gandhi brings the drama of both wars to one stagein A Tale of Two Revolts. He deftly reconstructs events from the pointof view of William Howard Russell - an Irishman who was also perhapsthe world's first war correspondent - and uncovers significantconnections between the histories of the United States, Britain andIndia. The result is a tale of two revolts, three countries and one…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Publication date: 9/15/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Rajmohan Gandhi is a research professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, a former parliamentarian in India, the author of the award-winning biography Gandhi (Haus, 2010). He is the grandson of the Mahatma Gandhi.



Preface



Britannia Rules the Waves


India, England and America, 1850-57



Galloping Fury


India, 1857



'Half-Devil and Half-Child'


England, America and India, 1857-59



Lincoln's Rise to Power


America, 1857-61



America Sheds its Blood


The Civil War 1861-65



Connections


The Two Revolts; and India, 1860 to 1900


Notes


Bibliography


Index