Places

This section deals with books that are specific to certain districts, provinces and places. For Campaigns and military history, please refer to Bibliography III.

Bihar

Author, Title and Publisher

[Eyre, Vincent]. Letters and Dispatches Connected with the Relief of Arrah in August 1857 and with the Subsequent Operations in Doab and at Lucknow under Colonel V. Eyre, C.B. N.p., 1867.

Brief Narrative of the Defence of Arrah Garrison, written by One of the Besieged Party To accompany Mr W. Tayler’s Picture of the Attack (London: W. Thacker & Co., 1858)

Boyle, Richard Vicars. Indian Mutiny: Brief Narrative of the Defence of the Arrah Garrison. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1858.

Bradley-Birt, F. B., Chota Nagpur, a Little-known Province of the Empire (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1903)

Halls, John James. Two Months in Arrah in 1857. London: Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1860.

Halls, John James. Arrah in 1857. Reprinted with an account of the relief by Charles Kelly. Edited by G. F. T. Leather. Dover: “Express” Office, 1893.

Sieveking, I. Giberne. A Turning Point in the Indian Mutiny. London: David Nutt, 1910.

Tayler, William. The Patna Crisis; or, Three Months at Patna During the Insurrection of 1857. London: James Nisbet and Co., 1858.

Tayler, William. Brief Narrative of Events Connected with the Removal of W. Tayler from the Commissionership of Patna. Calcutta: Privately printed, 1858.

Tayler, William. 38 Years in India. 2 vols. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1881–1882.

Wilson, Minden. History of the Behar Indigo Factories; Reminiscences of Behar; Tirhoot and Its Inhabitants of the Past; History of Behar Light Horse Volunteers. Calcutta: Calcutta General Printing Co., 1908.

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Articles

• Hansard Parliamentary Debates. “East India (Mr. William Tayler).” Commons Sitting, June 15, 1888, vol. 327, cols. 322–45. parliament.uk.
  Jha, J. C. “The Battle of Chatra (1857).” Proceedings of the Indian History Congress 43 (1982): 602–9. jstor.org.
• Kumar, S. Purushottam. “Kunwar Singh’s Failure in 1857.” Proceedings of the Indian History Congress 44 (1983): 360–69. jstor.org.
• Mukherjee, Siddhartha. “Major General Edward Tuite Dalton: Commissioner Chota Nagpur. British India. 1855-1875.” Farbound.Net, April 11, 2025. farbound.net.
• Singh, S. B. “Gaya in 1857-58.” Proceedings of the Indian History Congress 28 (1966): 379–87. jstor.org.

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