Insurgent Sepoys

Shaswati Mazumdar is Professor, Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, Arts Faculty, University of Delhi.

• IntroductionPart I. News and Views 1. German Responses: Theodor Fontane, Edgar Bauer, Wilhelm Liebknecht Claudia Reichel 2. French Counter-Narratives: Nationalisme, Patriotisme and Révolution Nicola Frith 3. Freedom and Democracy: The Revolt in the Italian Press Chiara Cherubini 4. A View of the Revolt in the Spanish Press Vibha Maurya and Maneesha Taneja 5. The Rebellion in Hungarian Newspapers and Journals Margit Köves 6. Czech Representations of India and the Rebellion, 1850-1930 Sarah Lemmen 7. Bulgarska Dnevnitsa: ABulgarian response to the Uprising Rashmi Joshi Part II.Fact and Fiction8. Retcliffe’s Nena Sahib and the German Discourse on India Anil Bhatti 9. The Rebellion of an Indian Temple Dancer Carola Hilmes 10. The Stirring Story of the 'Cipays': Italian Narrative Responses Flaminia Nicora 11. 'Remember Cawnpore': The ‘Massacre’ in the Voice of Italian Narrators Sharmistha Lahiri 12. Emilio Salgari’s The Two Tigers: Exoticism, Anti-Imperialism and Ambivalence Alessandro Portelli 13. Lost in Translation: Jules Verne and the Indian Rebellion Swati Dasgupta 14. ‘A Great Insurrection’: Jules Verne and British ‘Mutiny’ Fiction Suchitra Choudhury 15. The Rebellion in a 19th Century Indo-Portuguese Novel Everton V. Machado 16. Francisco Luis Gomes’s ‘Os Brahamanes’: The Uprising and Anglo Indian Society Balaji Ranganathan 17. The Dragon of Fire: A Dramatic Representation of the Revolt Vijaya Venkataraman. About the Editor. Notes on Contributors. Index

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