February 26 Crisis in the Raj

I. orientalism vs. interventionism
Lord William Bentinck (gg 1828-35)
Lord Dalhousie (gg 1848-56)
-Awadh; Lucknow
-Nawab Wajid Ali Shah

II. 1857

May 10, 1857

centers of rebellion
1) Meerut (contemporary British account)
2) Awadh
-siege of Lucknow
3) central India (Maratha territories)
-Nana Sahib
-Kanpur (Cawnpore)

counterinsurgency

III. mutiny?

IV. outcomes

-India Act of 1858
-army reforms/ martial race ideology (Lowell, "The Relief of Lucknow")
-shift in imperial ideology