Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857: Volume II: Britain and the Indian Uprising

Andrea Major is a former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, working on British attitudes to slavery in India, and now a lecturer in Wider World History at the University of Leeds. Her doctoral thesis, completed at Edinburgh University (2004), explored British interpretation of Sati (widow-burning) in India. She has written extensively on British engagements with gender and social issues in colonial India. Her publications include Pious Flames: European Encounters with Sati 1500–1830 (2006); Sovereignty and Social Reform: The British Campaign against Sati in the Princely States (Forthcoming); and Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772–1843 (2012).

Crispin Bates is Professor of Modern and Contemporary South Asian History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh and ‘former director’ of the University’s Centre for South Asian Studies. He has published extensively on tribal, peasant and labour history in India and the history of Indian overseas migration. His publications include Subalterns and Raj: South Asia since 1600 (2007); (with Subho Basu) Rethinking Indian Political Institutions (2005), Beyond Representation: Constructions of Identity in Colonial and Postcolonial India (2005), and (with Alpa Shah) Savage Attack: Tribal Insurgency in India (2014). Between 2006 and 2008, he was the Principal Investigator in a major Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded research project concerning the Indian Uprising, based at the University of Edinburgh.