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The Uprising of 1857: The Alkazi Collection of Photography

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Item Code: HAG135
Publisher: Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd.
Author: Rosie Llewellyn Jones
Language: English
Edition: 2018
ISBN: 9789385360114
Pages: 264 (With Color Illustrations)
Cover: HARDCOVER
Other Details 11.00 X 10.00 inch
Weight 1.86 kg
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About the Book

The 'sepoy revolt' was among the first fully photographed wars in the history of documentary photography in India. This volume offers multiple perspectives on the 'Ghadar' or Uprising of 1857, and deconstructs the grand narratives associated with colonial historiography. Using rare archival photographs from the Alkazi Collection, together with supplementary visual material, these essays re-evaluate the 'evidence' and official reading of the Uprising.

Linked accounts negotiate 'Mutiny' landscapes and architecture: the internal dynamic of the rebellion decoded through topography and monuments, including memorials, cemeteries, churches and forts, as well as the sites of appalling atrocity and retribution-besieged barracks, burning villages, gallows at crossroads and looted palaces.

Along with rebels, British troops and their determined generals, and various professional and amateur photographers caught up in documenting the turbulence, the dramatic vista of the Mutiny in these essays is also inhabited by a range of significant characters central to the action, including the warrior queen Lakshmi Bai, the exiled last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and the poet Mirza Ghalib.

With 168 illustrations.

About The Author

Rosie Llewellyn-Jones read Urdu and Hindi at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Her PhD was subsequently published as A Fatal Friendship: the Nawabs, the British and the City of Lucknow in 1985. She has written extensively on India during the colonial period, and edited Lucknow City of Illusion, the first book in the Alkazi Collection of Photography series (2006). She was Secretary of the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA) for ten years and is the founder and editor of its journal, Chowkidar. She is based in London, visiting India regularly.

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