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The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the Revolt of 1857 from a variety of original and unusual perspectives, focusing in particular on neglected socially marginal groups and geographic areas which have hitherto tended to be unrepresented in studies of this cataclysmic event in British imperial and Indian historiography. Anticipations and Experiences in the Locality (Volume 1) centres on unrest and disorder in the long history of resistance to colonial rule (the belli Britannica) prior to 1857, and the impact of the revolt itself in diverse localities within India. Table of Contents Preface Introduction Bandits, Bureaucrats and Bahadur Shah Zafar: Articulating Sovereignty and Seeing the Modern State Effect in the Margins of Colonial India, c. 1757–1858 Rumours of the Company`s Collapse: The Mood of Dasahra 1824 in the Panjab and Hindustan Dirk The Hazards of Interference’: British fears of Rebellion and Sati as a Potential site of Conflict, 1829–1857 Prostituting the Mutiny: Sex-slavery and Crime in the Making of 1857 The Roots of Peasant Turbulence: Tenure Structures and 1857 The Police in Delhi in 1857 Reflections of 1857 in Contemporary Urdu Literature Contextualising Truth: Deconstructing the Poet Khazan Singh’s Account of the War of Delhi, 1857 Situating the Role of Religion in the Rebellion: The Case of the Prayagwals in the Allahabad Uprising The Mutiny in Western India: The ‘Marginal’ as Regional Dynamic What Constitutes a Margin or Margins? The Politics of Perception and the Representation of Power: The Insurrection of 1857 in Kolhan The War of Independence 1857 and Swat Sultan-i-Rome Spatial Memorialising of War in 1857: Memories, Traces and Silences in Ethnography