Battle of Cawnpore, India 1857. Engraving from 1858, Engraver Unkown. Credit: D Walker/Getty Images
Artillery Row

The Indian Mutiny

Professor Jeremy Black on the British military presence in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

In this episode of Black’s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic‘s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the British military presence in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and what the Indian mutineers hoped to achieve in 1857 when they rose in rebellion.

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