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...Emperor was put on trial and charged--quite inaccurately--with being the evil genius behind an international Muslim conspiracy stretching from Constantinople, Mecca and Iran to the walls of the Red Fort in Delhi. Contrary to all the evidence that the uprising broke out first among the overwhelmingly Hindu sepoys, the British prosecutor argued that "to Musalman intrigues and Mohammedan conspiracy we may mainly attribute the dreadful calamities of the year 1857." Like some of the ideas propelling more recent adventures in the East, this was a bigoted oversimplification of a complex reality...
Dalrymple's latest book is The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi...
...British in India exactly 150 years ago. On the evening of Sunday, May 10, 1857, some 300 Indian troops (called sepoys) in the town of Meerut mutinied against their officers. They shot as many as they could, then rode through the night to the old Mughal capital of Delhi. There they massacred every Christian man, woman and child and declared the 82-year-old Mughal Emperor Zafar their leader. The rhetoric of the uprising explicitly revolved around the threat that the British posed to Indian religions. As the sepoys told Zafar on May 11, "We have joined hands to protect...
...Before long, the mutiny had snowballed into the largest and bloodiest anticolonial revolt facing any European empire in the entire course of the 19th century. There are many echoes linking the uprising to the Islamic resistance the U.S. faces today. Though the great majority of sepoys were Hindus, in Delhi a flag of jihad was raised in the principal mosque, and some of the insurgents described themselves as mujahedin or jihadis. Eventually, the uprising was crushed, but only after some of the most vicious fighting seen at any point in Indian or British history. Innocent British women and children were...
...Emperor was put on trial and charged-quite inaccurately-with being the evil genius behind an international Muslim conspiracy stretching from Constantinople, Mecca and Iran to the walls of the Red Fort in Delhi. Contrary to all the evidence that the uprising broke out first among the overwhelmingly Hindu sepoys, the British prosecutor argued that "to Musalman intrigues and Mohammedan conspiracy we may mainly attribute the dreadful calamities of the year 1857." Like some of the ideas propelling more recent adventures in the East, this was a bigoted oversimplification of a complex reality...