Contents

Cover

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Maps:

Location of Mutinies in Northern India

Delhi

Lucknow

Cawnpore

Prologue: ‘The Electric Telegraph has saved us’

1. The East India Company

2. ‘Carlo’ Canning

3. Professional Grievances

4. ‘Go to hell – don’t bother me!’

5. The Conspiracy

6. The Greased Cartridges

7. Mangal Pande

8. The Storm Bursts

9. Delhi

10. ‘The worst of the storm is past’

11. The Mutiny Spreads

12. Oudh

13. Cawnpore

14. Satichaura Ghat

15. The Backlash

16. Enter Sir Colin Campbell

17. The Fall of Delhi

18. The Relief of Lucknow

19. The Reconquest of Oudh

20. The Rani of Jhansi

21. ‘War is at an end’

Appendix One: Was 31 May 1857 the Date Fixed for a General Mutiny of the Bengal Army?

Appendix Two: The Civilian Conspiracy and Rebel Chiefs

Appendix Three: The Motive for Mutiny

Appendix Four: The Post-mutiny Reform of the Indian Army

Sequence of Events

Glossary

Bibliography

Notes