In what sense are Bartrum and Inglis's texts 'diaries', and does this affect their reliability as historical sources?.How does Julia Inglis's diary (1892) present the role of women in empire differently from its presentation in the diaries of Polehampton and Bartrum (both 1858)?.What is the effect of the numerous quotations from scripture and poetry in Katherine Bartrum's A Widow's Reminiscences?.How do British women's diaries present the structuring alignments of the siege of Lucknow? In particular, how are racial, religious and gender differences constructed in these texts?.Katherine Harris, A Lady's Diary of the Siege of Lucknow (1858).Michael Edwardes), Journal of the Siege of Lucknow: An Episode of the Indian Mutiny (1958) Adeline Case, Day by Day at Lucknow (1858).Julia Inglis, The Siege of Lucknow: A Diary (1892), 157-208.Katherine Bartrum, A Widow's Reminiscences of the Siege of Lucknow (1858), 1-72.Polehampton, M.A., Chaplain of Lucknow, ed. Polehampton' in A Memoir, Letters and Diary of the Rev. Does Savarkar’s political agenda (and later political activities) render his text obsolete for historians of the uprising?.How does Savarkar’s history of the uprising reproduce the tropes of colonial historiography?.How does Marx's account of British rule in India develop over the course of his articles for the New York Daily Tribune? Do Marx’s writings on India have any use for the historian other than as a source about Karl Marx?.For what can we now use Kaye’s History as a source?.How does Kaye explain the uprising, and what silences and exclusions does his account produce? What qualities, if any, do the texts by Marx, Kaye, and Savarkar share that permit us to describe them all as works of ‘history’? Savarkar, The Indian War of Independence 1857 (1909, repr. Malleson, Kaye’s and Malleson’s History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8, Vol. Engels, The First Indian War of Independence 1857-1859 (London, 1960) 'Investigation of Tortures in India' (1857)Ĭollected in K.'The Future Results of the British Rule in India' (1853).Karl Marx, articles on India for the New York Daily Tribune (1853 & 1857, 42 pp.).Lecture slides - you may want to have these open alongside the lecture, as they appear quite small in the recording 'History, properly speaking, cannot be written by eye-witnesses.' Discuss.What narratives of Mughal and British rule in India are presented in William Howard Russell's report from the Red Fort at Delhi (20 August 1858)?.Is the author's support for British rule in India a greater limitation on William Howard Russell's writing than it is on Syed Ahmed Khan's?.Does the 'Narrative of Mainodin' present an account of the uprising in Delhi 'from purely native sources'?.Metcalfe, trans., Two Native Narratives of the Mutiny in Delhi (1898, 47 pp.) also Metcalfe’s Introduction, pp.1-26 Syed Ahmad Khan, Asbab-e-Baghawat-e-Hind ( The Causes of the Indian Revolt), pp.1-16 (1859, 16pp.).“The British Army in India”, The Times 20 August 1858, pp.7-8 ![]() ![]() ![]() “The British Army in India”, The Times 19 July 1858, p.9 “The British Army in India”, The Times, p.6 “The War in India”, The Times 29 March 1858, pp.8-9
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