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- Author: Peter Stanley
- Publisher: Hurst & Co.
- Year: 2022
- Pages: 328
- ISBN-10: 1787385426
- ISBN-13: 9781787385429
- Format: 14.8 x 22.3 x 2.9 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
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If not for the famous Indian mutiny-rebellion of 1857, the Santal Hul (rebellion) of 1855 would today be remembered as the most serious uprising that the East India Company ever faced. Instead, this rebellion-to which 10 per cent of the Bengal Army's infantry was committed and in which at
least 10,000 Santals died-has been forgotten. While its memory lived among Santals, British officers published little about it, and most of the sepoys involved died in 1857. In the words of one British officer, the Hul was not war ... but execution, and perhaps thus was dismissed as unworthy of
attention by military historians.
counterinsurgency operations in the field (and the Santals improvising their first war), the Hul came to an end amid starvation and disease. But between its bloody outbreak, its protracted suppression and its far-reaching effects, Stanley demonstrates that the Hul was more than just execution-it
was indeed a war.
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- Author: Peter Stanley
- Publisher: Hurst & Co.
- Year: 2022
- Pages: 328
- ISBN-10: 1787385426
- ISBN-13: 9781787385429
- Format: 14.8 x 22.3 x 2.9 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English English
If not for the famous Indian mutiny-rebellion of 1857, the Santal Hul (rebellion) of 1855 would today be remembered as the most serious uprising that the East India Company ever faced. Instead, this rebellion-to which 10 per cent of the Bengal Army's infantry was committed and in which at
least 10,000 Santals died-has been forgotten. While its memory lived among Santals, British officers published little about it, and most of the sepoys involved died in 1857. In the words of one British officer, the Hul was not war ... but execution, and perhaps thus was dismissed as unworthy of
attention by military historians.
counterinsurgency operations in the field (and the Santals improvising their first war), the Hul came to an end amid starvation and disease. But between its bloody outbreak, its protracted suppression and its far-reaching effects, Stanley demonstrates that the Hul was more than just execution-it
was indeed a war.
Reviews