Insurgent sepoys : Europe views the Revolt of 1857 / editor, Shaswati Mazumdar.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

German responses: Theodor Fontane, Edgar Bauer, Wilhelm Liebknecht / Claudia Reichel -- French counter-narratives: nationalisme, patriotisme and révolution / Nicola Frith -- Freedom and democracy: the revolt in the Italian press / Chiara Cherubini -- A view of the revolt in the Spanish press / Vibha Maurya and Maneesha Taneja -- Hungarian responses: between support and disagreement / Margit Köves -- Czech representations of India and the rebellion, 1850-1930 / Sarah Lemmen -- Bǔlarska Dnevnitsa: a Bulgarian response to the uprising / Rashmi Joshi -- Part II: Fact and fiction -- Retcliffe's Nena Sahib and the German discourse on India / Anil Bhatti -- The rebellion of an Indian temple dancer / Carola Hilmes -- The stirring story of the 'Cipays': Italian narrative responses / Flaminia Nicora -- 'Remember Cawnepore': the 'massacre' in the voice of three Italian narrators / Sharmistha Lahiri -- Emilio Salgari's The two tigers: exoticism, anti-imperialism and ambivalence / Alessandro Portelli -- Lost in translation: Jules Verne and the Indian rebellion / Swati Dasgupta -- 'A great insurrection': Jules Verne and British 'mutiny' fiction / Suchitra Choudhury -- The rebellion in a 19th-century Indo-Portuguese novel / Everton V. Machado -- Francisco Luiz Gomes's Os Brahmanes: the uprising and anglo-Indian society / Balaji Ranganathan -- El dragón del fuego: a dramatic representation of the revolt / Vijaya Venkataraman.

"The Revolt of 1857 in India has so far largely been viewed as an event that was of interest to British and Indian scholars investigating the various consequences of British colonial rule in India. What has remained out of the focus of study during the last 150 years is the possible impact of the Revolt elsewhere, its so to say international dimension: what, in particular, was the reaction in Europe where elemental social and political transformations were underway. Whatever the varied nature of the reactions, the space given to the Revolt in many European newspapers and journals while it was in progress is certainly extensive. What is more, representations of and reflections on the Revolt appeared both during the event and for long after its suppression, above all in forms of popular fiction but also in historical accounts, letters, reminiscences and other forms of writing. The collection of essays in this volume ventures into this unexplored terrain and offers a first look at some of these European responses."--Publisher's description.