![]() Dalrymple’s analysis shocked me as it amounted to reducing or trivialising the assumed loftiness of the cause of the Sepoys by attributing it to a more or less unidimensional factor- religion.ĭalrymple lays strong emphasis on the uninhibited evangelism practised by the Christian missionaries fully sanctioned by the Company administration. ![]() ![]() The rebellion that took place, also called the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, was not fought wholly on account of, as I had assumed for so long, pressing issues such as the widespread exploitation of the Indian working classes, the merchants and the artisans by the Company Raj or the deliberate mishandling of famines and food shortages by the Company that were so rampant during its rule. Surveying the so-called First War of Indian Independence that took place at Delhi through the eyes of historian William Dalrymple in his book The Last Mughal, I was led to revise many of my long-held assumptions. ![]()
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