The British historians may call it ‘The Sepoy Mutiny’ or ‘The Revolt of 1857’ or by any other name, but the uprising of 1857 will always be the First War of Independence in India. Even though it was ...

The story of seven chieftains (palegars), who attempted a rebellion against the British rule in Chitradurga, eight years before the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny, is one of the lesser-known episodes in the fight ...

This week marks the 150th anniversary of the first Indian war of Independence, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. Breaking out in Meerut on May 10, 1857, the uprising soon spread all across northern and ...

Rani Lakshmi Bai fought in the 1857 revolt after the British denied her adopted son's claim to Jhansi throne The British East India Company annexed Jhansi under the Doctrine of Lapse after her husband ...

Tarzi’s “The Break of Dawn” is a yet another instance of a building modern Indian patriotism on the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny.

“The spark cannot just be kept alive through fighting,” declares one of the characters in Khan Mahboob Tarzi’s novel, “The Break of Dawn.” The words are spoken at the end of the Indian Mutiny (also ...