with the possible exception of someone like Mangal Pandey, who fired the first shot at a British officer on 29 March 1857 on the outskirts of Kolkata and stirred up a wave of rebellion in India ...

On the Barrackpore parade ground, when he took aim, Mangal Pandey probably knew that the consequence of his revolt would be death ... The spark of 1857 awoke the country and over the next ninety ...

In 1857 India, when relations between the colonised and colonisers finally reach breaking point, a native soldier in the British industry leads a mutinous rebellion against the imperialist occupiers.