GATHERING THE ASHESAn unusual perspective on India's first war of independence Most discussions on the sepoy mutiny of 1857 have centred on the roles played in it by the Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, Begum Hazrat Mahal and other sundry members of mostly urban nobility. What remained missing was a comprehensive ground zero account of how people in the countryside experienced this unorganized rebellion and reacted to it. In 1957, a hundred years

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