RodentRevolution
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Well I have so far been able to find only two independent sources on the net, all the other "Sikh" histories of the Mutiny seem to basically be copy pastes of one or the other but it would seem from this very limited sample that Sikh historiography is extremely vitriolic about the Mutiny in general and the Sepoys of the Bengal Army who initiated it in particular.
This tract is the more reproduced so I am not sure where the original came from, it is also the less scholarly.
The Indian Mutiny of 1857 and the Sikhs by Ganda Singh is certainly better resourced and researched but not much less vitriolic.
One point that I can glean from both is that it seems that the leadership that had made the Sikh armies so effective in their struggle to retain independence from the British had largely decimated and dispersed, which might well lessen the contribution they could make as the rebels never lacked numbers but rather organisation. In addition it might be noted that the greater part of the occupying forces and officialdom holding down the Sikhs after their recent occupation was drawn from natives of the Bengal. In other words at the time the Sikhs seem to be feeling they were already the bottom of the heap.
However these are but two authors so do treat with a certain amount of caution.
This tract is the more reproduced so I am not sure where the original came from, it is also the less scholarly.
The Indian Mutiny of 1857 and the Sikhs by Ganda Singh is certainly better resourced and researched but not much less vitriolic.
One point that I can glean from both is that it seems that the leadership that had made the Sikh armies so effective in their struggle to retain independence from the British had largely decimated and dispersed, which might well lessen the contribution they could make as the rebels never lacked numbers but rather organisation. In addition it might be noted that the greater part of the occupying forces and officialdom holding down the Sikhs after their recent occupation was drawn from natives of the Bengal. In other words at the time the Sikhs seem to be feeling they were already the bottom of the heap.
However these are but two authors so do treat with a certain amount of caution.