Interdisciplinary in focus, this title explores the areas of gender, colonial fiction, white marginal groups, the tribal movements, and penal laws, and associates them with the event. It presents alternatives views and expands and complicates the conceptual boundaries of the Rebellion.

Biswamoy Pati is Associate Professor at the Department of History, University of Delhi, India. His latest publications include two co-edited books published by Routledge The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India (with Mark Harrison, 2009) and India's Princely States (with Waltraud Ernst, 2007) and an edited volume entitled The 1857 Rebellion: Debates in Indian History and Society (2007).

1. Introduction: The Great Rebellion Biswamoy Pati 2. 1857 and the Adivasis of Chotanagpur Shashank S. Sinha 3. Remembering Gonoo: The Profile of an Adivasi Rebel of 1857 Sanjukta Dasgupta 4. Beyond Colonial Mapping: Common People, Fuzzy Boundaries and the Rebellion of 1857 Biswamoy Pati 5. Forests on Fire: The 1857 Rebellion in Tribal Andhra B. Rama Chandra Reddy 6. Contested sites: The Prison, Penal Laws and the 1857 Revolt Madhurima Sen 7. Courtesans and the 1857 Revolt: The Role of Azeezun in Kanpur Lata Singh 8. Discourses of 'Gendered Loyalty': Constructing Indian Women in 'Mutiny' Fiction of the Nineteenth century Indrani Sen 9. The 'Disposable' Brethren: European Marginals in Eastern India during the Great Rebellion Sarmsitha De 10. Sanitizing Indigenous Memory: 1857 and Mughal Exile Amar Farooqui 11. Ideas, Memories and Meanings: Adi Dravida Interpretations of the Impact of the 1857 Rebellion Raj Shekhar Basu