Punjab and Delhi in 1857

being a narrative of the measures by which the Punjab was saved and Delhi recovered during the Indian Mutiny

by J. Cave-Browne

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Published 1970 by Languages Dept., Punjab in [Patiala] .
Written in English

Places:

• India
Subjects:

• India -- History -- Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858.

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Edition Notes

Statement	by J. Cave-Browne.
Classifications
LC Classifications	DS478 .C33 1970
The Physical Object
Pagination	2 v.
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL4529722M
LC Control Number	76927026

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The Indian Mutineers selected Delhi as their capital, but, despite their attempts to drive the British off the nearby ridge, they failed to take the initiative. British reinforcements counterattacked the city and captured it after a desperate struggle. Outnumbered British forces, surrounded and deprived of logistical support or hope of relief, fought on against determined.   Punjab and the Rebellion of Discussion in 'Pakistan History' started by Tergon18, They had skirmishes with powers to be in Punjab. They ruled Delhi, parts of UP & Rajasthan, MP, Gujarat and Maharastra. there are six volumes of his book "storia da mogor" so it will be hard for me to find the exact page but the book is. Columnist AH AMIN re-interprets the so-called Indian Mutiny. Now, the above calculation leaves us w which may have been used in the entire fighting distributed in penny packets since major fighting was done at Delhi, Lucknow and Kanpure by irregular units raised in Punjab and Frontier.

India - India - The mutiny and great revolt of – When soldiers of the Bengal army mutinied in Meerut on , tension had been growing for some time. The immediate cause of military disaffection was the deployment of the new breech-loading Enfield rifle, the cartridge of which was purportedly greased with pork and beef fat. The Indian Rebellion of began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company's army on 10 May , in the cantonment of the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region. [3]Date: 10 May – 20 June , (1 year, 1 month, 2 weeks and 5 days). Sikh Temple. New Delhi, India entrance to the Sikh temple. praying on the steps of the temple. the book in the Sikh temple. Sikhs, followers of the Sikh religion, centered in Punjab State, in northwestern India. Sikhism is an ethical monotheism fusing elements of Hinduism and Islam.