A single-volume work makes a bold attempt to capture thousands of years of cultural ferment on the Indian subcontinent.

NEW DELHI (IANS) – Its undercurrents had been simmering for long but were ignored. When it finally erupted at Bombay on Feb.18, 1946 over terrible service conditions, racism and broken recruitment ...

“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 ...

London and New York: Routledge, 2025. Pp. xii, 269. Maps, tables, append., gloss, notes, biblio., index. $39.99 paper. ISBN: 1032380594 The Indian Mutiny in the ...

In the heart of the northern Indian city of Lucknow looms a national shrine where the infamous 1857 Indian Mutiny took place. Pockmarked buildings memorialize a fierce battle that sparked an attempt ...

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

First published in 1921, the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research (JSAHR) is one of the premier journals of military history. It is published quarterly in March, June, September and ...

Had Pakistan not been created in 1947 and not broken up in 1971 to create another avowedly Muslim state, India's combined Muslim population would have of the order of 620 million, about a quarter of ...

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