Marked Meerut

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Indian uprising of 1857

Indian soldiers of the East India Company’s army rose against their British officers at Meerut in May 1857, and the revolt spread across northern India. It was crushed with great brutality, and the British crown took over rule of India.

Place
Meerut · Delhi · Kanpur · Lucknow · JhansiAsia
Laid out as
A warTwo sides, a front line, and the turns the fighting took.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

The East India Company and its loyal troops

  1. IThe cartridges
  2. IIMeerut
  3. IIIDelhi and the last Mughal
  4. IVCawnpore and Lucknow
  5. VThe Rani of Jhansi
  6. VIThe British Raj begins

Rebel soldiers, rulers and civilians of northern India

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Mangal Pandey
  • Bahadur Shah II
  • Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi
  • Nana Sahib
  • Begum Hazrat Mahal

Objects

  • Photographs by Felice Beato
  • The Mutiny Memorial, Delhi

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1857 to 1858. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?