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“The Mutiny of 1857 was much more than a Mutiny of Sepoys and much less than a National Rebellion.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Indian Response to British Rule

This formulation, associated with historian Thomas R. Metcalf, stakes out a middle position between two extremes in the long historiographical debate on 1857.

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