Language: EnglishPages: 599Back of The BookThe Indian War of Independence 1857, is a step by step account of the uprising of India as a whole be it Hindu or Muslim agaist the ruthless British empire. Tracing footsteps of the barefooted, undernourished and almost unarmed Indian common folks challenging the British bullets by sheer force of will power, the author establishes beyond an iota of doubt, that the uprising was a war of Independence, and not a mere sepoy Mutiny as dubbed by the British. Some Glaring Truths About This Book: 1.This book became the Bible for Indian revolutionaries. 2.The book was proscribed (banned) by the British Government before its publication. 3.The book was smuggled in India and England after it was published in Holland. 4.The demand for this book was so enormous that it used to be sold and resold at fabulous price as such as Rs. 300/-( in 1910) PrefaceThis book on the history of 1857 was originally written in an Indian vernacular. But owing to he unique nature of the book which, for the first time ever since the great War was fought, proves from the English writers themselves that the rising of the Indian people in 1857 was in no way an insignificant chapter in, or a tale unworthy of, a great peoples history, pressing requests were made from many quarters to translate the work into the English language, so that, by translations into the other vernaculars the whole of the Indian nation might be enabled to read the history of the ever memorable War of 1857. Realising the reasonableness and important of these requests and with the reasonableness and importance of these requests and with the kind permission of the author, the publishers undertook the translation of the original into the English language. With the patriotic cooperation of many of their countrymen, they are able to-day to place this work in - from Amzon