Hul! Hul!: The Suppression of the Santal Rebellion in Bengal, 1855 Stanley Peter
Hul! Hul!: The Suppression of the Santal Rebellion in Bengal, 1855 Stanley Peter If not for the famous Indian mutiny-rebellion of 1857, the Santal Hul (rebellion) of 1855 would today be remembered as…
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Hul! Hul!: The Suppression of the Santal Rebellion in Bengal, 1855 Stanley Peter
If not for the famous Indian mutiny-rebellion of 1857, the Santal Hul (rebellion) of 1855 would today be remembered as the most serious uprising that the East India Company ever faced. While its memory lived among Santals, British officers published little about it, and most of the sepoys involved died in 1857. Instead, this rebellion-to which 10 per cent of the Bengal Army's infantry was committed and in which at least 10,000 Santals died-has been forgotten.
but execution, and perhaps thus was dismissed as unworthy of attention by military historians.Drawing for the first time on the Bengal officers voluminous reports on its suppression, Peter Stanley has produced the first comprehensive interpretation of the Hul, investigating why it occurred, how it was fought and why it ended as it did. In the words of one British officer, the Hul was not war ... Despite the Bengal Army