The Indian War of Independence 1857

Contents: I. The volcano: 1. Swadharma and Swaraj. 2. The chain of causes. 3. Nana Sahib and Lakshmi Bai. 4. Ayodhya. 5. Adding fuel to fire. 6. Lit up the sacrificial fire. 7. Secret organisation. II. The eruption: 1. Shahid Mangal Pandey. 2. Meerut. 3. Delhi. 4. The interlude and the Punjab. 5. Aligarh and Nasirabad. 6. Rohilkhand. 7. Benares and Allahabad. 8. Cawnpore and Jhansi. 9. Oudh. 10. The summing up. III. The conflagration: 1. The fight in Delhi. 2. Havelock. 3. Behar. 4. Delhi falls. 5. Lucknow. 6. Tatia tope. 7. The fall of Lucknow. 8. Kumar Singh and Amar Singh. 9. Moulvie Ahmad Shah. 10. Ranee Lakshmi Bai. IV. Temporary Pacification: 1. A bird\'s eye view. 2. The culminating offering in the sacrificial fire. 3. Conclusion. Glossary.

The Indian War of Independence 1857, is a step by step account of the uprising of India as a whole be it Hindu or Muslim against 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.