The skull of Alum Bheg : the life and death of a rebel of 1857 /

In 1963, a human skull was discovered in a pub in Kent in southeast England. A brief handwritten note stuck inside the cavity revealed it to be that of Alum Bheg, an Indian soldier in British service who was executed during the aftermath of the 1857 Uprising, or The Indian Mutiny as historians of an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wagner, Kim A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Bheg, Alum > Death and burial. India > History > Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858. Military trophies > Great Britain > 19th century. Great Britain > History, Military > 19th century. British > India > History. Political violence. Imperialism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The hot wind of an Indian May
A religious question from which arose our dread
Common fame is but a lying strumpet
Escape at once from this horrible place
Tenants of Pandemonium
Their blood have they shed like water
Gorging vultures and howling jackals
Justice so prompt and vigorous
A pursuing destiny
Sharp and short as the cannons roar
But from the skulls of the slain
Epilogue: the dead bodies of thy servants.