War at India II

1857 was not only fought with swords. Handbills, Urdu and Hindi newspapers, religious proclamations and clandestine pamphlets carried the message of revolt from cantonment to cantonment. This gallery curates the surviving print culture of the uprising.

Visitors can examine facsimiles of the original Bahadur Shah Zafar proclamations and follow the early growth of the Indian press in the decades that followed.