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	Publisher: K P Bagchi & Co, Kolkata
	Author Aniruddha Ray
	Language: English
	Pages: 340
	Cover: HARDCOVER
	8.5x5.5 inch
	Weight 560 gm
	Edition: 1990
	ISBN: 8170740711
	HBN892

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About the Book This is a case study of the rebellion of the Nawab of Oudh, Vizir Ali Khan, in 1799 after his deposition and transfer to Beneras by the English East India Company. This study, most-ly based on the unpublished English manuscripts of the contemporary period lying in different archives of India, deals with the penetration of the English in Oudh and their attempts to con-trol the administration as well as the army in view of the invasion of Zaman Shah, the war with Tipu Sultan and the hostile designs of the French, Marathas and the Raja of Nepal. After the failure of the rebellion at Beneras, Vizir Ali Khan had fled to the jungles of Gorakhpur where he waited for the support of other powers and an insurrection to start at Lucknow. Encouraged by a section of Amils, Zamindars and various groups of peasants, Vizir Ali Khan took the help of the zamindar of Bhutwal, located at the bor-der of Oudh and Nepal, to create a situation which was positively anti-English. Yet he lost in the battles against a superior English army but managed to escape to Jaipur, thanks to the support given to him by a section of the army of the Nawab of Oudh. After a protracted nego-tiation, Raja of Jaipur handed him over to the English despite the protest by the pro-maratha group of nobility. He was taken to Calcutta where he died in 1817 after being imprisoned in Fort William Jail. The book also deals with the fate of his supporters, most of whom were seized and punished while his family was trans-ferred to Monghyr. The book also deals with the historical interpretation of the revolt by the European and Indian historians since the 19th century and the changed interpretation of the rebellion through the passage of time.

About the Author Aniruddha Ray was educated at the Presidency College, under Calcutta University and taught History for a few years before proceeding to Paris for his Doctorate under Prof. Fernand Braudel and Ruggiero Romano of the University of Paris, Sorbonne. Returning to Calcutta in 1968, he joined the Department of Islamic His-tory & Culture, University of Calcutta, where he holds the position of Professor at present. Не was Secretary of the Colleges of Arts and Com-merce, Calcutta University for a few years and was Treasurer and Joint Secretary of the Indian History Congress. He had published numerous articles in various Journals of India and abroad and had published books on Mughal Adminis-tration and Memoires of Francois Martin, a French merchant of late 17th century India. A Calcutta University 'Blue' in Rowing, he at pre-sent holds the honorary post of Joint Secretary, Calcutta University Sports Board and is a mem-ber of various Sports Committees of India. He is at present Vice-President, Paschim Banga Itihas Sansad.

Foreword The last years of the eighteenth century have been ignored by historians in contrast to the detailed accounts available for the next decade. The earliest years of the nineteenth century saw many warlike events in the Indian subcontinent, in the Middle East and the Mediterranean region, and in Europe and the Atlantic communities played out on the eastern coasts of the Americas. Lord Wellesley's aggrandisement and his younger brother, later the Duke of Wellington's victories in different parts of India led to the expansion of the British Indian Empire on a subcontinental scale by 1803: British naval and military victories set the initiative for European resistance to Napoleon Bonaparte's French Revolutionary Imperialism between 1805 and 1815: and part of its results were found in the consolidation of British, Tsarist Russian, Prussian and Hapsburg authoritarian and colonialist positions on a global scale, with the growth of British naval authority on the high seas. Also a newly assertive America began to be forged both in the USA, and in the Creole-dominated lands south of it. These trends give the earliest years of the nineteenth century a clear imperial bourgeois dimension, compared to which events in different parts of the world in the late eighteenth century-except for the cataclysm of the French Revolution from 1789-appear either obscure or merely a backdrop to the innovations of the next decade. Yet the 1790s mark the passing of an entire century-old age of transition from absolutism in decay. Older states in South Asia were decisively dissolved in the 1790s. The deaths of Mahadaji Sindhia and of Nana Phadnavis marked the breakup of the Maratha Confederacy: which made Arthur Wellesley and later-Mountstuart Elphinstone's conquests easier. In 1799, Tipu Sultan was killed fighting before the walls of his last fortress, Seringapatam. The Mysore attempt to challenge British supremacy in South India through a Hindu-Muslim composite policy was subordinated-like the Marathas-into the British Indian native state "system.

Acknowledgements While reading about Tipu Sultan and the crisis of the English settlements in India at the end of the 18th century, I was attracted by the anti-English and perhaps romantic nature of the revolt of Vizir Ali, Nawab of Oudh. In my search for documents, I was helped and encouraged by Dr. H.A. Qureshi of Lucknow who had done a thesis on Vizir Ali. I am much obliged to him for his kind help and unfailing courtesy, proverbial to the people of Lucknow, in locating these documents. I am also grateful to Prof. S.A.A. Rizvi and Prof. Ramesh Chandra Sharma for their kind help. I am also grateful to Mr. M.Ι. Siddiqui of U.P. State Archives (Lucknow), who located two Persian documents for me and kindly translated these for me. As is usual in such cases, I am much beholden to the staff of National Archives of India (New Delhi), Regional Archives of U.P. (Allahabad), West Bengal State Archives (Calcutta), The Asiatic Society (Calcutta), National Library (Calcutta) as well as to the staff of the Library of the University of Calcutta. Without their ungrudging and active cooperation, it would not have been possible to complete this work. Once again, I remain under obligation to my teacher, Prof. Barun De, who had very kindly agreed to write the Foreword of this work and had spent much time in discussing with me the different aspects of this case study over a period of time. I am also thankful to Prof. Gautam Bhadra of the University of Calcutta and Prof. Sankar Bhattacharya of Kalyani University for offering helpful suggestions.

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