Cawnpore and Lucknow

Author, Title and Publisher	Notes
( A Volunteer) My Journal; or, What I Did and Saw Between the 9th June and 25th November 1857: With an Account of General Havelock’s March from Allahabad to Lucknow. Calcutta: C. B. Lewis, Baptist Mission Press, 1858.
(By a Staff Officer). Defence of Lucknow, a Diary. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1858	Covers events at Lucknow from 31 May until 25 September.
(Harris, G.) A Lady’s Diary of the Siege of Lucknow: Written for the Perusal of Friends at Home. London: John Murray, 1858.
(MacCrea. R.) The Tablets in the Memorial Church, Cawnpore, 1857. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co. 1894	This pamphlet is a key to the tablets in the Memorial Church, designed to enlighten visitors. It also gives biographical background on the victims, among other snippets of information. It is a thoroughly macabre book, but still useful today for anyone going to see the church in Cawnpore.
(Shepherd, W.J.) The Cawnpore Outbreak and Massacre. Calcutta: Englishman Press 1857	The book is the first version of W.J. Shepherd’s account, although it appeared anonymously. A detail in the account (being wounded in the back by a spent bullet & his family) allows us to identify it as Shepherd’s. Raw & unpolished, the book includes an account by another survivor & eyewitnesses to the subsequent massacres & one of the first lists of the victims.
Ali, Darogah Haji Abbas. comp. The Lucknow Album. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1874
Ali, Darogah Haji Abbas. comp. An Illustrated, Historical Album of the Rajas and Taaluqdars of Oudh. Allahabad: Government Press, 1880
Anderson, A.T. A Short History of Lucknow. Allahabad: Pioneer Press, 1913
Anderson, R. P. A Personal Journal of the Siege of Lucknow. Edited by T. C. Anderson. London: W. Thacker & Co., 1858.
Bancroft, James W. The Devil’s Trap: The Victims of the Cawnpore Massacre During the Indian Mutiny. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2020.
Bartrum, Katherine Mary. A Widow’s Reminiscences of the Siege of Lucknow. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1858.	This includes her escape from Gonda to Lucknow.
Blunt, Alison. Travel, Home and Empire: British Women in India, 1857–1939. London: Guilford Press, 1997.
Case, Adelaide. Day by Day at Lucknow: A Journal of the Siege by the Widow of a Regimental Officer. London: Richard Bentley, 1858.
Fayrer, Joseph. Recollections of My Life. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900.
Germon, Maria Vincent. A Diary Kept by Mrs. R. C. Germon, During the Siege of Lucknow. London: Waterlow & Sons, 1870.
Gubbins, Martin Richard. An Account of the Mutinies in Oudh, and of the Siege of the Lucknow Residency. London: Richard Bentley, 1858.
Hervey, Charles. Lieutenant General Crommelin, C.B. A Memoir and Retrospect. Exeter: William Pollard & Co. 1887.	This book deals with the passage of Ganges by Havelock’s force and the mining operations at Lucknow.
Hinshaw, Judith Edna. Thesis: Imperialism and Widowhood: British Widows of the 1857 Indian Mutiny. Department of History, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2011
Hilton, Edward. The Tourist’s Guide to Lucknow. Lucknow: The Methodist Publishing House. 1899
Hutchinson, George. Narrative of the Mutinies in Oude. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1859.
Joyce, Michael. Ordeal at Lucknow. London: John Murray, 1938
Inglis, Julia Selina. The Siege of Lucknow: A Diary. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1892.
Innes, McLeod. Lucknow & Oude in the Mutiny: A Narrative and a Study. London: A.D. Innes & Co., 1895.
Kavanagh, T. Henry. How I Won the Victoria Cross. London: Ward & Lock, 1860.
Knighton, W. The Private Life of an Eastern King. London: Hope & Co. 1854	This book caused a sensation in its time and was a mostly unflattering portrait of the court at Lucknow. Knighton served on the staff of the court. He claims to have no “political object” but openly calls for annexation in the introduction.
Lee. J. The Indian Mutiny, and in Particular a Narrative of Events at Cawnpore, June & July 1857. Cawnpore: Victoria Press, 1893	Lee was a soldier in HM’s 53rd Foot. After the mutiny, he took up residence in Cawnpore and became the proprietor of the Railway Hotel. The pamphlet is to be taken with some scepticism, but Lee does tell a good story. He was not present at the Siege of Cawnpore, but arrived with Havelock’s force.
Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie. Engaging Scoundrels. True Tales from Old Lucknow. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Mukherjee, Rudrangshu. Spectre of Violence. The 1857 Kanpur Massacres. Viking by Penguin Books, 1998
Polehampton, Edward, Polehampton Thomas, edit. A Memoir, Letters and Diary of the Rev. Henry S. Polehampton, Chaplain of Lucknow. London: Richard Bentley 1858
Qureshi, H.A. edit. – The Mutiny Records, Awadh and Lucknow of Edward Hilton. Lucknow: New Royal Book Company, 2010	Much of the book is Hilton’s Tourist Guide; however, it has interesting additions in the form of lengthy appendices.
Shepherd, W.J. A Personal Narrative of the Outbreak and Massacre at Cawnpore. Lucknow: London Printing Press, 1879
Speirs, Malcolm. Lucknow, Families of the Raj. Malcolm Speirs, 2013
Ruggles, J. Recollections of a Lucknow Veteran, 1845-1876. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1906
Ruutz-Rees, L.E. A Personal Narrative of the Siege of Lucknow. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1858
Ruutz-Rees, L.E. Selbsterlebtes während der Belagerung von Lucknow. Deutsche Originalausgabe. Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung von Carl S. Lorch, 1858	Ruutz-Rees originally wrote his book in German; considering he was Swiss, this is not surprising. The English translation is in keeping with the German book, although there are minor differences in certain descriptions.
Thomson, Mowbray. The Story of Cawnpore. London: Richard Bentley, 1859
Trevelyan, G.O. Cawnpore. London & Cambridge: Macmillan & Co. 1866	This book is based on depositions, Thomson’s book, government narratives and the testimony of an Indian lawyer. It is detailed and makes for an interesting read.
Yalland, Zoe. Traders and Nabobs. The British in Cawnpore, 1765-1857. Michael Russell Publishing, 1987
Yalland, Zoe. Boxwallahs. The British in Cawnpore, 1857-1901. Michael Russell Publishing, 1994
Ward, Andrew. Our Bones Are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1996.

Articles

• Breckon, Ian. The Bloodiest Record in the Book of Time: Amy Horne and the Indian Uprising of 1857, in Fact and Fiction. PhD diss., University of Leeds, 2018. CORE repository. core.ac.uk.
• Cohen, Clive. “THE MASSACRED AND THE MORE THAN ILLUSTRIOUS THE 32ND (CORNWALL) REGIMENT OF FOOT AT CAWNPORE AND LUCKNOW: PART 1 – CAWNPORE.” Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 95, no. 382 (2017): 97–118. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44872015.
• Cohen, Clive. “THE MASSACRED AND THE MORE THAN ILLUSTRIOUS THE 32ND (CORNWALL) REGIMENT OF FOOT AT CAWNPORE AND LUCKNOW: PART 2 – LUCKNOW: FALSE MOVE AND FALSE HOPE.” Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 95, no. 383 (2017): 234–50. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44872038.
• Cohen, Clive. “THE MASSACRED AND THE MORE THAN ILLUSTRIOUS THE 32ND (CORNWALL) REGIMENT OF FOOT AT CAWNPORE AND LUCKNOW: PART 3 – HOPE UNFULFILLED.” Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 95, no. 384 (2017): 307–24. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44872056.
• Cohen, Clive. “THE MASSACRED AND THE MORE THAN ILLUSTRIOUS THE 32ND (CORNWALL) REGIMENT OF FOOT AT CAWNPORE AND LUCKNOW: PART 4 – HOPE REALISED.” Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 96, no. 385 (2018): 33–65. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26876125.
• Fraser, John. Europeans Who Sided with the Mutineers in India 1857–9: The Christian Bandsmen of the Native Infantry Regiments. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 79, no. 318 (2001): 119–30. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44230687.
• Fraser, J. More Europeans Who Sided with the Mutineers in India 1857–9. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 80, no. 322 (2002): 110–27.
• Mukherjee, Rudrangshu. Satan Let Loose upon Earth: The Kanpur Massacres in India in the Revolt of 1857. Past & Present, No. 128 (Aug., 1990), pp. 92-116. Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Past and Present Society. http://www.jstor.org/stable/651010

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