[Reader-list] South Asian Entries on Wikipedia

[Ravikant]

Dear Shuddha and All,

In my off the list response to Jassim, I suggested we could start with at 
least a nice biblio on 1857, which will be good for students, fresh teachers 
and journalists in general, to say nothing about the unprofessional curious 
mind. There is indeed very little content on History, especially, south asian 
history on wikipedia. 

And as we all know, wikipedia can be done in any language that is unicode 
supported.  Anyway I will start a page on 1857 biblio and circulate the link, 
then everybody can pitch in. The annotation to books can carry further 
conceptual, factual notes. 

Post google:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rebellion_of_1857

There is actually a page on 1857 and a biblio, too. But it is a small one. I 
paste the biblio below:

Cheers
ravikant

   1. ^ Eric Stokes “The First Century of British Colonial Rule in India: 
Social Revolution or Social Stagnation?” Past and Present №.58 (Feb. 1973) 
pp136-160
   2. ^ Seema Alavi The Sepoys and the Company (Delhi: Oxford University 
Press) 1998 p5
   3. ^ Christopher Hibbert The Great Mutiny (London: Allen Lane) 1978 pp51-4
   4. ^ Memorandum from Lieutenant-Colonel W. St. L. Mitchell (CO of the 19th 
BNI) to Major A. H. Ross about his troop's refusal to accept the Enfield 
cartridges, 27 February 1857, Archives of Project South Asia, South Dakota 
State University and Missouri Southern State University
   5. ^ Sir John Kaye & G.B. Malleson.: The Indian Mutiny of 1857, (Delhi: 
Rupa & Co.) reprint 2005 p49
   6. ^
   7. ^ Qizilbash, Basharat Hussain (30th June 2006)The tragicomic hero. The 
Nation. Nawai-e-Waqt Group. Available online at [1]

[edit]

Further reading

    * Raikes, Charles: Notes on the Revolt in the North-Western Provinces of 
India, Longman, London, 1858.
    * Russell, William Howard, My Diary in India in the years 1858-9, 
Routledge, London, 1860, (2 vols.)
    * Trevelyan, Sir George Otto, Cawnpore, Indus, Delhi, (first edition 
1865), reprint 2002.
    * Khan, Sir Syed Ahmad, Asbab-e Baghawat-e Hind 1859; Translated as The 
Causes of the Indian Revolt, Allahabad, 1873.
    * Kaye, Sir John & Malleson, G.B.: The Indian Mutiny of 1857, Rupa & Co., 
Delhi, (1st edition 1890) reprint 2005.
    * Roberts, Field Marshal Lord, Forty-one Years in India, Richard Bentley, 
London, 1897 Forty-one years in India, available freely at Project Gutenberg
    * Innes, Lt. General McLeod: The Sepoy Revolt, A.D. Innes & Co., London, 
1897.
    * Fitchett, W.H., B.A.,LL.D., A Tale of the Great Mutiny, Smith, Elder & 
Co., London, 1911.
    * Sen, Surendra Nath, Eighteen fifty-seven, (with a foreword by Maulana 
Abul Kalam Azad), Indian Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Delhi, 1957.
    * Barter, Captain Richard The Siege of Delhi. Mutiny memories of an old 
officer, London, The Folio Society, 1984.
    * Hibbert, Christopher, The Great Mutiny : India 1857, London, Allen Lane, 
1988.
    * Roy, Tapti, The politics of a popular uprising : Bundelkhand 1857, 
Delhi, for the Oxford University Press, 1994.
    * Stanley, Peter, White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India, 
1825-1875, Christopher Hurst & Co., London, 1998.
    * Taylor, P. J. O., What really happened during the mutiny : a day-by-day 
account of the major events of 1857 - 1859 in India, Delhi, for the Oxford 
University Press, 1999.
    * Rizvi, Syed Khurshid Mustafa: 1857 - History of the Indian Struggle for 
Freedom, Raza Library, Rampur, 2000 [in Urdu].
    * Mukherjee, Rudrangshu: Awadh in Revolt 1857-1858, Permanent Black, 
Delhi, 2001.
    * Saul David, The Indian Mutiny : 1857,Penguin Books, 2003.
    * Farrell, J.G. "The Siege of Krishnapur", New York Review of Books, 2004.



Friday 14 जुलाई 2006 17:24 को, Shuddhabrata Sengupta ने लिखा था:
> Dear All,
>
> This is following Jassim's excellent suggestion of updating, writing,
> intervening in entries on South Asian culture, history, geography,
> biography in Wikipedia, as well as on other matters that might be of
> interest to people on this list.
>
> I endorse this suggestion, and perhaps this list could be a forum where
> areas that are weak in Wikipedia can be listed and discussed, and
> suggestions of how to improve them made.
>
> I have found Wikipedia very useful, but recognize that it too is under a
> great deal of pressure to amend the way it is sustained. People on this
> list would be ideally the kind who should get their foot in through the
> wikipedia door (or should I say portal) and  make their presence felt,
> while the time and space to do that remains,
>
> Any takers?
>
> Shuddha
> _________________________________________
> reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city.
> Critiques & Collaborations
> To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe
> in the subject header. List archive:
> <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/>