Spectre of Violence - The 1857 Kanpur Massacre (Paperback)

Mukherjee, an eminent historian, argues that the absence of the so called "rebels" of the colonization by the British accounts and chronicles invariably inhibits a telling of their version of the story. What is ONLY available are the accounts of British survivors, and diaries of British loyalists and depositions as part of the official report prepared by the British only.