War of Independence in Perspective of English Historiography in Muslim India

Abstract

Historiography of British India has been a subject of wide scope of understandings, approaches and positions. Articulations of every one of those historiographical writings have their inclines as indicated by the conditions. That range could be grouped under numerous topical movements. This paper investigates the specific arrangement of accentuations that rose in the portrayals of Indian Muslims during the awful accidents of 1857–59. These portrayals have been analyzed in detail, first through the correspondence of John William Kaye (1814-76), and afterward through an examination of those compositions with G.B. Malleson and J.C. Browne. Prior to continuing to that conversation, in any case, the accompanying two prefatory sections will fret about a reassessment of the historiography encompassing the War of Independence and of British impression of Indian Muslims. The focal contention proposed in these sections is that the War of Independence set up without precedent for Indian irritation with British. These writings were altogether at difference with Anglo-Indian insight yet neither the way of its rise, nor the determination with which has ever sufficiently been clarified. The accentuation here is on the curiosity of such an observation in Anglo-Indian ideological developments of Indian society, involving as it did the vicious conflation of a progression of related however until now discrete components.