Indian Mutiny

noun

a revolt of Indian troops (1857–59) that led to the transfer of the administration of India from the East India Company to the British Crown

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The ghastly memento of the Indian Mutiny has, we are informed, just been placed in the museum of the Royal United Service Institution at Whitehall.

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And yet there was an underlying imperialist savagery, seen in the bloody suppression of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, combined with cynicism.

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The Venice-born photographer travelled extensively during his career, photographing the Crimean war, the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny and the second Opium War.

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It was just at the time when Hodson’s career seemed ruined that the Indian Mutiny broke out, and he obtained the opportunity of rehabilitating himself.

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Author of 'The History of the Indian Mutiny.'

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Indian mustard Indian National Congress

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