Ferdinand Mount is the author of The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905.
One of his top ten books about the British in India, as shared at the Guardian:The Great Mutiny by Christopher Hibbert (1978)
For the British, there was no more traumatic event in the entire 19th century than the Great Mutiny. The European officers were cut down by their own men whose loyalty





