War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma

by Christopher Herbert

Book Overview

On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain, where the uprising against British rule in India was often portrayed as a clash of civilization and barbarity demanding merciless retribution. Although by twentieth-century standards the number...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691143307
• ISBN13: 9780691143309
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.9"