The Indian Uprising of 1857-8

Prisons, Prisoners and Rebellion

By (author) Clare Anderson

Publication date:

01 September 2007

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

234x155mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781843312499

This fascinating book, based on extensive archival research in Britain and India, examines why mutineer-rebels chose to attack prisons and release prisoners, discusses the impact of the destruction of the jails on British penal policy in mainland India, considers the relationship between India and its penal settlements in Southeast Asia, re-examines Britain’s decision to settle the Andaman Islands as a penal colony in 1858 and re-evaluates the experiences of mutineer-rebel convicts there. This book makes an important contribution to histories of the mutiny-rebellion, British colonial South Asia, British expansion in the Indian Ocean and incarceration and transportation.

'This carefully researched book fills a major gap in the historiography of colonial India.'  —Sumit Guha, Professor of History, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey