The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857

by Kim A. Wagner

Book Overview

In 1963, a human skull was discovered in a pub in Kent in south-east England. A brief handwritten note stuck inside the cavity revealed it to be that of Alum Bheg, an Indian soldier in British service who was executed during the aftermath of the 1857 Uprising, or The Indian Mutiny as historians of an earlier era described it. Alum Bheg was blown from a cannon for having allegedly murdered British civilians, and his head was brought back as a grisly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190870230
• ISBN13: 9780190870232
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"