The present work on 'Uprising of 1857' traces, in brief, the impact of the British colonial rule and resultant opposition to its dominance and exploitation in India in general and more particularly in the South, including Andhra Pradesh. It also undertakes a survey of the pre-1857 movements as well as critical account of the great uprising of 1857 in India, of course, with greater emphasis on its outbreak in the South British Andhra and Nizam Andhra and its continuity in the post-1857 period, in the form of independent movements, till its memory became a political weapon of the leaders of the Nationalist Movement all in six chapters.
The importance of the present work lies in the fact the it dispels, for the first time, the general belief among most of the scholars and public that Southern India had played no role during the uprising of 1857 and it was only Northern India which endeavored to overthrow the oppressive British rule in 1857-58 and delves deep into the details of the movement in the region to substantiate the hypothesis that the South too rose in arms against the colonial rulers in 1857-58. |
