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The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

After 1857, a British General Forced Condemned Men to Clean Blood Off a Floor Under the Lash, Then Hanged Them. He Was Not the Worst of It.

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Begum Hazrat Mahal Answered Queen Victoria's 1858 Pardon With a Five-Point Proclamation of Her Own and Died in Nepal Without Accepting It

Mirza Ghalib Published His First Urdu Divan in Delhi in 1841, Held the Titles Dabir-ul-Mulk and Najm-ud-Daula at Bahadur Shah Zafar's Court, and Kept a Persian Diary Through the Fall of Delhi in 1857

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Tantia Tope Was Seized Asleep in the Paron Jungle on the Night of 7 April 1859 by Man Singh of Narwar, a Chief He Trusted, and Hanged at Sipri on the 18th

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

One Soldier's Act of Defiance: How Mangal Pandey Lit the Fuse of 1857

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

The Raj Hanged Mangal Pandey Ten Days After Barrackpore, Dismissed Seven Companies of His Regiment Four Weeks Later and Made His Surname a Word for Every Rebel

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

The Rani of Jhansi: How a Legal Loophole Made the Company Its Most Dangerous Enemy