Category: History

Minutes and milestones from the corridors of history.

How the Bengal army came to be an army of robust Sepoys.

Delving into the fascination of populating the Bengal army with impressive Prussian type native Sepoys.
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Why native Indian Sepoys had preferred to enlist in the armies of the East India Company, between the 17th and 18th century.

In the 17th century, monthly payments made service in the Bengal army a great attraction.
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The death of Charlotte Chambers during the Mutiny of 1857.

During the mutiny of 1857 the gruesome and ritualistic murder of Charlotte Chambers was a rallying call.
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Good journalism. But instigating journalism.

An illustration that beautifully presents the brutality of 1857, and how 18th century Journalism used it to evoke pathos.
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British allies, sketched and coloured for 40 guineas.

Troops of the Native Allies was a colored lithograph published in 1867
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Wasn’t it John Duncan Spaeth who said it?

Origin of the phrase the sun never sets on the British empire and its witty rejoinder.
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How the Nana became a freedom fighter.

The Nana Saheb's journey from a minor feudal chieftain to a country's national hero.
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A jumble of myth, history, narrative and nationalism.

The phrase that is the First War of Indian Independence traces its origin to 1907
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Political Animals.

Tenniel's political cartoon inspired by the massacre of Europeans in 1857
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The Greco-Roman Buddha from Gandhara, the Kushan Period.

Sculpted in Gandhara, a statue that is among the first to show the Buddha in human form
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A list of battles of the second Gurkani emperor Humayun.
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John Murray and his photo of the infamous well of Bibighar.

One of the earliest photos of the infamous well of Bibighar in Cawnpore, British India.
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