Victorian Interpretations Of The Mutiny And The Rebellion

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Scholars have studied the different interpretations that the Victorians made of the Mutiny and the Rebellion. Talking about the treatment of India in the British press, he explains: [a] class of periodical authors devoted themselves to extolling the British. […] articles like “Indian Heroes,” in the Westminster Review, offer glowing portraits of the heroic greatness of the British race. This greatness was said to have been proven even by many British military setbacks, from the doomed defense of Cawnpore to the desperate efforts of besieged British forces at Lucknow, thereby transforming ignominious futility into rhetorical victory.
As a form of propaganda, these representations ‘show how quickly British public opinion in India and Britain

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