Year of Blood hedging an emptiness as ineffectual as

an emptiness as ineffectual as a shadow

Congress is more polarized than ever

and went on to live a lifetime

while boldly reassessing the ritual value of failure to recapture the past and recreate the "original

this revised and expanded edition:

Year of Blood hedging an emptiness as ineffectual asRudrangshu Mukherjee places the soldier peasant at the forefront of the Revolt. Violence has rarely been described with so much realism and subtlety. The imaginative use of primary source materials adds clarity to accounts such as the massacre in Satichaura Ghat and the trial of Mangal Pandey. The layers of complexity that defined the relationship between the rulers and the subjugated are also exposed.