S1.E3 - The Sepoy Mutiny and Indian Uprising

The Indian Mutiny. The War of Indian Independence. The Indian Uprising. Three names for a conflict which begins in Meerut in May 1857, and ends eighteen months later. After months of growing tension betweent the Indian sepoys and their European officers, full of miscommunication, assumptions, and mutual suspicion, the sepoys mutiny at Meerut, killing their officers and marching on Delhi.

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Thank you to my guest historians:

• Christina Welsch, Assistant Professor of History at the College of Wooster, and author of The Company's Sword: The East India Company and the Politics of Militarism, 1644-1858 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)
• Kim Wagner, Professor of Imperial and Global History at King's College London, and author of The Great Fear of 1857: Rumours, Conspiracies, and the Making of the Indian Uprising (Witney: Peter Lang, 2010)
• Mark Condos, Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Global History at King's College London, and author of The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India, 1849-1935 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
• Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Chancellor and Professor of History at Ashoka University, and author of Awadh in Revolt, 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985)

Thank you to my guest voice actors:

• Bruce Carlson, host of My History Can Beat Up Your Politics.

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