• ISBN13: 9789384082871
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: History
• Publisher: Ratna Sagar
• Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook
• Publication Date: September 12, 2016
• Pages: 144
• Original Price: INR 950.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 404 grams

Hope and Despair: Mutiny, Rebellion and Death in India recounts the story of the thousands of Indians–sailors and forgotten working class individuals–who braved British bullets and bayonets on the streets of Bombay and Karachi, during the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) Mutiny and the attendant civil rebellions of 1946.

Anirudh Deshpande is Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi. He has to his credit several publications, including The British Raj and its Indian Armed Forces, 1857 - 1939 (2002); British Military Policy in India 1900-1945: Colonial Constraints and Declining Power (2005); Class, Power and Consciousness in Indian Cinema and Television (Primus, 2009); Issues in Twentieth Century World History (2012, 2014); The First Line of Defence-Glorious 50 Years of the Border Security Force (2015); ‘The Wars of the East India Company 1740-1849’ in International Encyclopedia of War edited by Gordon Martel. A former Nehru Memorial Museum & Library Fellow, he has published numerous papers in acclaimed journals.