Volume 54, Number 9 · May 31, 2007
India's Great Tragedy
By Brian Urquhart
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
by William Dalrymple
Knopf, 534 pp., $30.00
In my childhood, the Indian Mutiny, as it was then exclusively called in England, was still a subject of high emotion—presented as an inexplicable outrage in which Indian soldiers, trained by the benevolent British, had suddenly turned on their benefactors and massacred large numbers of them over some question of the grease on a new batch of cartridges.
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