The following is a fictional legend based on the lives of well known members of society. They were not at all involved in the writing of this script, and had no creative input whatsoever. The scenes described are not, nor have they ever been real, according to the date of the scripts completion. Their inclusion in this story is strictly for creative reasons and in no way a portrayal of the nature of they who are included. All ideas are from the author, and the involvement of well known persons is solely circumstantial and for the sake of entertaining an audience.

The revolt of 1857 continues to arouse interest and debate. This book, first published in 1984 and now in paperback for the first time, remains one of the best studies of popular resistance and peasant rebellion. This revised edition features a new introduction, which provides an update on the historiography of peasant revolt. The author also charts some of these changes and their relevance to a deeper understanding of the uprising of 1857.

An Illuminating Inquiry Into The Play Of Power And Dominance Behind 1857 On 27 June 1857, Rebels Publicly Slaughtered Over 300 Men, Women And Children Of The Master Race At The Satichaura Ghat In Kanpur. On 15 July, A Group Of Women And Children Who Had Survived Were Killed At The Bibighur. Two Days Later, General Havelock Reclaimed Kanpur And Colonel James Neill Decimated The Rebel Population. This Sequence Of Violence Has Held Sway Over Indian And British Imaginations For Generations, And Historians And Commentators Have Recounted The Massacres With Horror. Locating The Massacres In The Upheaval Which Overtook North India In The Early Nineteenth Century, Rudrangshu Mukherjee, An Eminent 1857 Historian, Analyses The Nature Of The Violence. Mukherjee Argues That The Absence Of Rebel Accounts And Chronicles Inhibits A Telling Of Their Version Of The Story. What Is Available Are The Contemporary Accounts Of British Survivors, Diaries Of British Loyalists And Depositions As Part Of The Official Report Prepared By The British. By Reading These Sources Against Their Grain And By Examining The Manner In Which The Evidence Was Stitched Together, Spectre Of Violence Brings To Light Fresh Directions Of Inquiry Into The Events Of 1857.