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The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Delhi's Jama Masjid Was Returned on 28 November 1862 and the Fatehpuri Mosque Was Bought Back in the 1870s, but the Akbarabadi Mosque and Five City Gates Were Gone by 1902 and a 300-Yard Belt Around the Red Fort Had Been Cleared

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

After 1857, a British General Forced Condemned Men to Clean Blood Off a Floor Under the Lash, Then Hanged Them. He Was Not the Worst of It.

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Begum Hazrat Mahal Answered Queen Victoria's 1858 Pardon With a Five-Point Proclamation of Her Own and Died in Nepal Without Accepting It

Mirza Ghalib Published His First Urdu Divan in Delhi in 1841, Held the Titles Dabir-ul-Mulk and Najm-ud-Daula at Bahadur Shah Zafar's Court, and Kept a Persian Diary Through the Fall of Delhi in 1857

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Tantia Tope Was Seized Asleep in the Paron Jungle on the Night of 7 April 1859 by Man Singh of Narwar, a Chief He Trusted, and Hanged at Sipri on the 18th

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

One Soldier's Act of Defiance: How Mangal Pandey Lit the Fuse of 1857

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

The Raj Hanged Mangal Pandey Ten Days After Barrackpore, Dismissed Seven Companies of His Regiment Four Weeks Later and Made His Surname a Word for Every Rebel

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

The Rani of Jhansi: How a Legal Loophole Made the Company Its Most Dangerous Enemy