The Indian Mutiny: Rejection of Empire

John Game writes that the Indian mutiny against the British Empire in July 1857 is an inspiration to today’s anti-imperialists

This year is the 150th anniversary of the greatest armed rising against British imperialism the world has seen. It began as a mutiny of the largest army in Asia – the East India Company’s Bengal Presidency Army – and turned into a general rising of the peasantry across the whole of what today is northern India.

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