This week marks the 150th anniversary of the first Indian war of Independence, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. Breaking out in Meerut on May 10, 1857, the uprising soon spread all across northern and ...
“The spark cannot just be kept alive through fighting,” declares one of the characters in Khan Mahboob Tarzi’s novel, “The Break of Dawn.” The words are spoken at the end of the Indian Mutiny (also ...
Tarzi’s “The Break of Dawn” is a yet another instance of a building modern Indian patriotism on the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny.