Revolt of 1857

In his book 'The Skull of Alum Bheg', Dr Kim Wagner, a British-Danish historian, details how a young soldier was falsely accused of th grisly murders of a British doctor and reverend.

Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, a renowned British scholar, talks about an unnamed and unsung African woman who fought in Sikandra Bagh in Lucknow during the Revolt of 1857 and killed a number of British soldiers before being shot.

Few Indians know the story of Jenab Aliya Begum a.k.a Malika Kishwar, the remarkable queen of Awadh who lies in an unmarked grave at Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

Hiding in a tree, she carefully took aim at the approaching British.

The story of how the mysterious distribution of chapatis spooked the British administrators of the Raj shortly before the outbreak of rebellion in 1857.