Victorian and Pre-Victorian Colonial India: An Overview

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Pre-Colonial India

• India Before the British
• The Caste System
• Indian Religion
• Indian Subcontinent: An Overview (in the Postcolonial Literature Web)

Colonial India

• India: An Introduction
• The East India Company
• Timeline of British India
• The mutiny at Vellore 1806
• The 1857 Indian Mutiny (sitemap/overview)
• Punch on the Mutiny and its aftermath
• The British Obsession with Suttee
• Victorian Images of India
• Bazaar, Lucknow
• Mausoleum over the Well at Cawnpore
• The Suttee Chowra Ghât, or landing place — scene of the second massacre
• Bazaar, Lucknow
• Bridge between the Palace and Selimghur, Delhi

Individuals

• A.O. Hume and the founding of the Indian National Congress
• John Stuart Mill
  • Selected Statements on India before the Mutiny
    • Trade with India (1828)
    • Minute on the Black Act(1836)
  • Selected Statements on India after the Mutiny
    • Petition of the East-India Company to Parliament(1858)
    • A Constitutional View of the Indian Debate
    • The Moral of The Indian Debate
    • A letter from Cawnpore -- William Pugsley to his mother, 8 November 1857
• General Charles Napier and the Conquest of Sind
• Defending the Cultural Margins in 1860, or Drummed out of the Indian Army: The Case of Lt. Kennedy

India in Victorian literature

• Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone
• Wilkie Collins's :A Sermon for Sepoys"
• Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South
• Rudyard Kipling's works on India

Related Web Resources

• The Sepoy War of 1857: Mutiny or First Indian War of Independence? (Emory U.)

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Last modified 9 March 2007