Begum Hazrat Mahal: The Queen Who Ruled Rebel Awadh
From the khawasin ranks to the regency of a rising: Birjis Qadr's coronation, the counter proclamation to Victoria, and the exile who refused every pension.
Read MoreKanpur 1857: Nana Saheb, Satichaura Ghat, and the Bibighar
The entrenchment, the broken surrender at Satichaura Ghat, the Bibighar killings, and Neill's reprisals: the rebellion's darkest ledger, kept whole.
Read MoreThe Siege of Lucknow: The Residency and the Longest Stand of 1857
Chinhat, Lawrence's death, the twice relieved garrison, the sack of the Qaisarbagh, and the flag never lowered until 1947: the Residency's long stand.
Read MoreMeerut, May 1857: Where the Great Rebellion Began
The cartridges, the shackling of the eighty five, the Sunday evening rising, and the midnight march to Delhi: where the storm of 1857 broke first.
Read MoreBundelkhand’s Forts and Famines: The Hard Country South of the Yamuna
Kalinjar's sieges, the Alha ballads, Chhatrasal's rebellion, the Maratha bargain that created Jhansi, and the droughts: the hard country's deep history.
Read MoreRohilkhand and the Rohillas: The Afghan Country of the Upper Doab
The Pashtun confederacy of the doab, Najib ud Daula and Panipat, the mercenary war of 1774, and Rampur's library: the Rohilla story.
Read MoreThe Annexation of Awadh: Dalhousie’s Move That Lit the Fuse
February 7, 1856: the misgovernment pretext, the Sleeman report, the dispossessed taluqdars, and the sepoys whose homeland the Company confiscated.
Read MoreWajid Ali Shah: The Last Nawab and the Loss of a Kingdom
The artist king of Qaisarbagh, the Sleeman report, the refused signature of 1856, and the Lucknow rebuilt in exile at Matiyaburj: the last Nawab's two portraits.
Read MoreLucknow of the Nawabs: Tehzeeb, Kathak, and the Culture of Refinement
Pehle aap, Ganga Jamuni tehzeeb, the Kathak gharana, the thumri, the tawaifs' salons, and the civilisation of manners that made Lakhnavi an adjective.
Read MoreThe Rise of Awadh: How the Nawabs Built a Kingdom Inside an Empire
From Saadat Khan's governorship to Buxar, the subsidy trap, and the Bara Imambara built as famine relief: the century of the Nawabs of Awadh.
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