Indian Rebellion of 1857: Primary Sources
Guide to sources on the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 in colonial India
General Information on Archives
- So You Want to Be an Archivist: An Overview of the Archives ProfessionSociety of American Archivists
- ProvenanceDefinition from Society of American Archivists: Glossary of Archival Terminology
- A Glossary of Archival and Records TerminologyBy Richard Pearce-Moses. Use to browse or search terms. Or download the entire lexicon as a pdf
- DiaryKeith Thomas, pp. 36-37 in London Review of Books, vol. 32, no. 11, 10 June 2010
Print Archives: Rare Books and Manuscripts
- Finding Aid to 1857 Rare Books at Princeton UniversityA collection of rare books and manuscripts is available at Rare Books Special Collections, Princeton University
Digital Archives
- India, Raj & Empire . This link opens in a new windowFrom the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland, this searchable online resource provides access to digital facsimiles of diaries and journals, official and private papers, letters, sketches, paintings and original Indian documents containing histories and literary works. See the India Uprising 1857-1858 theme documents.
- Mutiny at the Margins, the Indian uprising of 1857A project of Edinburgh University on the 150th Anniversary of the Indian Uprising (2007)
Primary Sources: Newspapers
- ProQuest historical newspapers. Times of India (1838-2002) . This link opens in a new windowThe Times of India (1838-2001) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue for the following titles: The Bombay times and journal of commerce (1838-1859), The Bombay times and standard (1860-1861), and The times of India (1861-current).
- South Asian newspapers / from the World Newspaper Archive in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries. This link opens in a new window"South Asian Newspapers features titles published in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Languages include English, Bengali, Gujarati, and others. Titles include such key publications as: Amrita Bazar Patrika (Calcutta), Bankura Darpana (Bankura, India), Madras Mail (Madras), Tribune (Lahore, Pakistan) and the Ceylon Observer (Sri Lanka) ... The collection will provide more than 400,000 fully searchable pages of newspapers published in South Asia between 1864 and 1922."--Center for Research Libraries.