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1857: The Real Story Of The Great Uprising

Vishnubhat Godse
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Around the middle of the nineteenth century, when the East India Company had consolidated its hold over the Indian subcontinent, a Chitpavan Brahmin by the name of Vishnu Bhatt Godse Versaikar decided to cross the Vindhya mountains with his aged uncle to earn some money. What he had not foreseen was how his trip would coincide with the historic Sepoy Mutiny and play havoc with their travel plans.

This is a unique first-person, eyewitness account of their picaresque journey, recorded several years after their return home. This is also perhaps the only documentation of a momentous event in the history of India by an impoverished but learned young beggar-priest. The extent of Vishnu Bhattji's direct involvement in it remains under wraps but the strange combination of compelling candidness and vague disjointedness off the narrative invites the readers to read between the lines and explore the unspelt-out aspects of the saga.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
240 pages
Publication:
2011
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Edition:
Language:
en-US
ISBN10:
9350290367
ISBN13:
9789350290361
kindle Asin:
B00CDGR426

1857: The Real Story Of The Great Uprising

Vishnubhat Godse
4.00/5 (177 ratings)
Read Download
Around the middle of the nineteenth century, when the East India Company had consolidated its hold over the Indian subcontinent, a Chitpavan Brahmin by the name of Vishnu Bhatt Godse Versaikar decided to cross the Vindhya mountains with his aged uncle to earn some money. What he had not foreseen was how his trip would coincide with the historic Sepoy Mutiny and play havoc with their travel plans.

This is a unique first-person, eyewitness account of their picaresque journey, recorded several years after their return home. This is also perhaps the only documentation of a momentous event in the history of India by an impoverished but learned young beggar-priest. The extent of Vishnu Bhattji's direct involvement in it remains under wraps but the strange combination of compelling candidness and vague disjointedness off the narrative invites the readers to read between the lines and explore the unspelt-out aspects of the saga.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
240 pages
Publication:
2011
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Edition:
Language:
en-US
ISBN10:
9350290367
ISBN13:
9789350290361
kindle Asin:
B00CDGR426

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