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The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the revolt of 1857 from original and unusual perspectives, focusing in particular on neglected socially marginal groups and geographic areas which have hitherto tended to be unrepresented in studies of this cataclysmic event in British imperial and Indian historiography.
A Speech of John Bright to the House of Commons
A Speech of John Bright to the House of Commons
AN edited collection of the speeches of John Bright MP, published in 1868, used a speech made on the subject of the uprising to show the value of the book's subject. The editor sought to remind his readers of the
public duty to inferior or subject races, a duty which was grievously transgressed before and after the Indian mutiny, and has been still more atrociously outraged in the Jamaica massacre. Upon these and similar matters, no man who wishes to deserve the reputation of a just and wise statesman,—in other words, to fulfil the highest and greatest functions which man can render to man,—can find a ...
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