The Trial of Mangal Pandey (State Papers)

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The trial of Mangal Pandey, State papers present the official records of the trial that culminated in the death sentence of mangal Pandey, hailed by some as the one who initiated India’s First War of Independence in 1857, and dismissed by other as a disgruntled sepoy who under the indluence of bhang defied the writ of the British The Trial record throw light on Mangal Pandey's role in the first war of Independence in 1857 leaving the responsibility of discerning an accident from a deliberate act of rebellion solely with the reader.

Leela Sarup, nee Gujadhur, was born in Calcutta, India. Initially educated in Mauritius, she returned to India to complete her studies. With her keen interest in History, Leela Sarup has compiled the Colonial emigrants Acts ( 1837-1832). On Indentured Labour, and is now in the process of completing various writing projects amongst which is Narratives of the Sepoy Mutiny of India.