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395.01   Indian Mutiny (1858): Introduction
395.02   The Cawnpore (Kanpur) Massacres
395.03   Felice Beato: Indian Mutiny (1858) - Lucknow
395.04   Felice Beato: Indian Mutiny (1858) - Mutineers hanged
395.05   Felice Beato: Indian Mutiny (1858) - Hodson's Horse
395.06   Robert & Harriet Tytler: India at the time of the Mutiny
395.07   Darogha Ubbas Alli: Sekunder Bagh, Lucknow
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395.01   War >  Indian Mutiny (1858): Introduction 
  
From the perspective of the British Empire the 1857 the war that took place in India was a mutiny against the crown and needed to be suppressed. The Indian perspective is not surprisingly rather different and it is seen as the Indian Uprising or the First War of Indian Independence against an oppressive colonial power. 
  
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395.02   War >  The Cawnpore (Kanpur) Massacres 
  
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There were several massacres at Cawnpore in Uttar Pradesh firstly the Satichaura Ghat on 27 June 1857 and secondly at the Bibighar [Bibi Ghar] on 15th July 1857. Following the suppression of the Indian Mutiny a memorial was erected ca. 1860 with the statue of an angel by Baron Carlo Marochetti surrounded by an octagonal gothic stone screen by Henry Yule. The All Souls Memorial Church was also built 1862-75 to commemorate the events. The Memorial was originally at the Bibi Ghar well and Indians were not allowed onto the site until Indian Independence in 1947 when the memorial was moved to the All Souls Memorial Church. 
  
395.03   War >  Felice Beato: Indian Mutiny (1858) - Lucknow 
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Felice Beato went to Lucknow in India to photograph the war damage of the two sieges that took place and arrived soon after Sir Colin Campbell took the city in 1858. Beato also visited other cities that had been affected by the war including Delhi and Cawnpore (Kanpur) 
  
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395.04   War >  Felice Beato: Indian Mutiny (1858) - Mutineers hanged 
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Notice how in these variants of the albumen print by Felice Beato taken after the capture of Delhi by the British forces during the Indian Mutiny (1858) the background has been altered to provide a stronger silhouette to the scene. 
  
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395.05   War >  Felice Beato: Indian Mutiny (1858) - Hodson's Horse 
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395.06   War >  Robert & Harriet Tytler: India at the time of the Mutiny 
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395.07   War >  Darogha Ubbas Alli: Sekunder Bagh, Lucknow 
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General reading 
  
Cave-Browne, J., 1861, The Punjab and Delhi in 1857: Being a Narrative by which the Punjab Was Saved and Delhi Recovered during the Indian Mutiny, (London: William Blackwood and Sons) [Includes an engraving based on a photograph by Charles Waterloo Hutchinson] [Δ] 
  
Lewinski, Jorge, 1978, The Camera at War, A History of War Photography, (New York: Simon & Schuster) [Δ] 
  
Livingston, Jane, 1985, The Indelible Image, Photographs of War, (New York: Harry Abrams) [Δ] 
  
Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie (ed.), 2006, Lucknow City of Illusion, (Prestel Publishing) [Δ] 
  
Sharma, Brij Bhushan, 1982, ‘A 'Photographic' Book on the Indian Mutiny‘, History of Photography, vol.6, no.2, pp.173-177 [Δ] 
  
 
  
Readings on, or by, individual photographers 
  
Felice Beato 
  
Bowen, Claire, 2007, ‘Memorising the Mutiny: Felice Beato's Lucknow Photographs‘, Cahiers victoriens & édouardiens, no.66, pp.195-209 [Δ] 
  
Chappell, Walter, 1958, Feb., ‘Robertson, Beato & Co. Camera vision at Lucknow‘, Image, no.7, pp.36-40 [Δ] 
  
Clark, John; Fraser, John & Osman, Colin, 1989, A Chronology of Felix (Felice) Beato, (Privately printed by the authors) [Δ] 
  
Fraser, John, 1981, ‘Beato's photograph of the interior of the Sikansar-Bagh at Lucknow‘, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, vol.59, pp.51-55 [Δ] 
  
Harris, John, 2000, ‘Topography and Memory: Felice Beato's Photographs of India, 1858-1859‘, in Dehejia, Vidya (ed.), India through the lens: photography 1840-1911, pp.118-147 [Δ] 
  
Masselos, Jim & Gupta, Narayani, 1997, Beato's Delhi, 1858, 1887, (Delhi) [Δ] 
  
Harriet Christina Tytler 
  
Attin, Anthony (ed.), 1986, An Englishwoman in India: The Memoirs of Harriet Tytler, 1828-1858, (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [With an introduction by Philip Mason] [Δ] 
  
Thomas, G., 1985, October / December, ‘Indian Mutiny Veterans: The Tytlers‘, History of Photography, vol.9, pp.125-128 [Δ] 
  
Robert & Harriet Tytler 
  
Attin, Anthony (ed.), 1986, An Englishwoman in India: The Memoirs of Harriet Tytler, 1828-1858, (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [With an introduction by Philip Mason] [Δ] 
  
Thomas, G., 1985, October / December, ‘Indian Mutiny Veterans: The Tytlers‘, History of Photography, vol.9, pp.125-128 [Δ] 
  
Robert Christopher Tytler 
  
Attin, Anthony (ed.), 1986, An Englishwoman in India: The Memoirs of Harriet Tytler, 1828-1858, (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [With an introduction by Philip Mason] [Δ] 
  
Thomas, G., 1985, October / December, ‘Indian Mutiny Veterans: The Tytlers‘, History of Photography, vol.9, pp.125-128 [Δ] 
  
 
  
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com 
  

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ThumbnailFelice Beato: India: Hodson's Horse 
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ThumbnailFelice Beato: India: Lucknow: Interior of the Secundra Bagh 
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ThumbnailFelice Beato: India: Lucknow: The Residency 
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ThumbnailFelice Beato: India: Mutineers Hanged 
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ThumbnailRobert & Harriet Tytler: India at the time of the Mutiny 
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   Themes 
  
ThumbnailWar: Indian Mutiny (1856) 
 
 
  
   Geography 
  
ThumbnailIndia: Cawnpore [Kanpur] 
ThumbnailIndia: Lucknow: Secundra Bagh - Sekunder Bagh 
 
  
   Events 
  
ThumbnailIndian Mutiny: The Cawnpore [Kanpur] Massacres 
 
 
  
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