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Literature of the 1857 Mutiny / 1857 Rebellion

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Here, we will give an overview of literature of the 1857 Rebellion, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. The best known novel centrally about this event might be Flora Annie Steel, but the events of 1857 also show up in many other texts from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

Flora Annie Steel, On the Face of the Waters
Rudyard Kipling, "The Undertakers" (1895)
Rudyard Kipling, "The Lost Legion" (1891)
Rudyard Kipling, "The Mutiny of the Mavericks" (1891)

Jules Verne, The Steam House
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four 
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

Contents of this path:

  1. Flora Annie Steel, "On The Face of the Waters" (1896)