The Indian War Of Independence 1857

The author made a noble attempt to look at the incidents of 1857 from the Indian point of view. A leading revolutionary himself, he was attracted and inspired by the burning zeal, the heroism, bravery, suffering and tragic fate of the leaders of the Sepoy Mutiny. Most historians, British as well as Indian have described and dismissed the rising of 1857 as a ‘Sepoy Mutiny’ or at best ‘The Indian Mutiny’. But the Indian revolutionaries on the other hand, and national minded leaders and thinkers have regarded it as a planned and organized political and military rising aimed at destroying the British power in India. The writer decided to reinterpret the story and to relate it in full with the help of all the material available at that time. Apart from the splendid merits of the subject matter dealt with in the warlit pages of this history of this book, the story of the thrilling vicissitudes through this book had to pass does by itself entitle it to be placed in any world class library or any heart of the student of history.