The Year of Blood

Rudrangshu Mukherjee is Chancellor, Ashoka University, Sonepat. He was the Editor, Editorial Pages, The Telegraph. He taught in the department of history, University of Calcutta and held visiting appointments at Princeton University, Manchester University and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author and editor of a number of books that include Spectre of Violence: The Massacres in Kanpur in 1857, Delhi, 2007 (1998), New Delhi: The Making of a Capital (co-authored) Delhi, 2009, The Penguin Gandhi Reader (edited), Delhi, 1993, Awadh in Revolt, 1857–58: A Study of Popular Resistance (Delhi, 1984; repr. Delhi and London, 2001), and Dateline, 1857: Revolt Against the Raj, Delhi, 2008 among others.

1. Introduction 2. 29 March 1857 3. Life of a Sepoy 4. The Greased Cartridge 5. Chapati, Rumours and Prophecy 6. The Trial 7. Epilogue