Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857: Volume II: Britain and the Indian Uprising(Mutiny at the Margins)

The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the Revolt of 1857 from a variety of original and unusual perspectives, focusing in particular on neglected socially marginal groups and geographic areas which have hitherto tended to be unrepresented in studies of this cataclysmic event in British imperial and Indian historiography. Britain and the Indian Uprising (Volume 2) looks at the varied responses of British missionaries, colonial leaders and working-class voices and how they reveal the multiplicity of British reactions to the revolt.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction: Fractured Narratives and Marginal Experiences - Andrea Major and Crispin Bates Public Perceptions of 1857: An Overview of British Press Responses to the Indian Uprising - Rebecca Merritt Popular British Interpretations of ′the Mutiny′ : Politics and Polemics - Salahuddin Malik ′Spiritual Battlefields′: Evangelical Discourse and the Writings of the London Missionary Society - Andrea Major Scottish Presbyterian Missionaries and Public Opinion in Scotland - Esther Breitenbach Captive Women and Manly Missionaries: Narratives of Women Missionaries in India - Caroline Lewis Ambiguous Imperialisms: British Subaltern Attitudes towards the ′Indian War′ - Projit Bihari Mukharji Being Indian in Britain during 1857 - Michael H Fisher Marginalised Victims of 1857 - Rosie Llewellyn-Jones Marginal Whites and the Great Uprising: A Case Study of the Bengal Presidency - Sarmistah De Besieged in Common: Shared Narratives of British Men and Women in 1857 - Ira Bhattacharya Sir George Grey and Indian Rebellion: The Unmaking and Making of an Imperial Career - Jill Bender Index

About the Author :
Andrea Major is a former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, working on British attitudes to slavery in India, and now a lecturer in Wider World History at the University of Leeds. Her doctoral thesis, completed at Edinburgh University (2004), explored British interpretation of Sati (widow-burning) in India. She has written extensively on British engagements with gender and social issues in colonial India. Her publications include Pious Flames: European Encounters with Sati 1500-1830 (2006); Sovereignty and Social Reform: The British Campaign against Sati in the Princely States (Forthcoming); and Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772-1843 (2012). Crispin Bates is Professor of Modern and Contemporary South Asian History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology and Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on tribal, peasant and labour history in India and the history of Indian overseas migration. His publications include Subalterns and Raj: South Asia since 1600 (2007); (with Subho Basu) Rethinking Indian Political Institutions (2005), Beyond Representation: Constructions of Identity in Colonial and Postcolonial India (2005), and (with Alpa Shah) Savage Attack: Tribal Insurgency in India (2014). Between 2006 and 2008, he was the Principal Investigator in a major Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded research project concerning the Indian Uprising, based at the University of Edinburgh.