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White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India

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White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India - Stanley, Peter
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In the White Mutiny of 1859-61--the largest revolt the British army ever faced--European troops operating on behalf of the East India Company rebelled against their transfer to the service of the Queen of England. Through an analysis of the White Mutiny, Peter Stanley provides a portrait of emerging working-class consciousness among the troops and reveals how the British army, the preeminent icon of English imperialism, first maintained, then lost, control over a vast and generally hostile sub-continent. In cantonment ...

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White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India 1998, New York University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780814780831

Hardcover