Mutiny at the Margins: New perspective on the Indian Uprising of 1857

《边缘的兵变》是一个为期两年的项目，旨在通过主题、合作研究、以爱丁堡为中心的学者网络和国际会议，为1857-1858年的印度起义提供新的见解。该项目的目标是：1.以专题和合作的方式对这一主题进行新的研究，为1857年的印度起义提供早就应该进行的修正主义观点。离散但相互关联的研究思路是探索各种社会边缘群体的参与，这些群体通常是从1857年传统的精英史学中写出来的。这是通过将研究时间分配给主要申请人和协理调查员以及雇用两名研究助理来实现的。这个研究团队的目标是共同撰写一部专著和几篇学术文章。2.建立一个国内外感兴趣的学者网络，并使爱丁堡成为从事与1857年开创性事件有关的项目的研究人员的焦点。该项目的一个主要目标是汇集该领域最尖端的研究成果。为此，2007年在爱丁堡和新德里举行了会议，2008年在伦敦举行了另一次会议，以及讲习班、研讨会和感兴趣的学者每季度举行一次会议。其结果是制作了经过编辑的卷，汇集了正在进行的最好的研究成果。3.利用起义150周年的机会，提高公众的兴趣，并向学术界内外的广大受众传播研究结果。这是通过与苏格兰国家图书馆等机构合作实现的，苏格兰国家图书馆在2007年组织了一个名为《茶与老虎》的展览，并通过公共讲座、研讨会和非学术媒体上的文章实现了这一目标。4.通过制作一个宣传该项目的网站，并提供可下载的原始原始材料、正在进行的研究的摘要、参考资料和有用的链接，提供资源，以协助在中小学和大学进行这方面的教学。其目的也是为了制作一本包含主要原始材料的原始书籍，强调起义中鲜为人知的方面，以供学者和学生使用。

'Mutiny at the Margins' was a two-year project that aimed to provide new insights into the Indian Uprising of 1857-58 through thematic, collaborative research, a network of scholars centred on Edinburgh, and international conferences. The project's objectives were: 1. To provide long overdue revisionist perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857 by undertaking new research on the subject in a thematic and collaborative fashion. Discrete, but interlocking research strands were to explore the involvement of various socially marginal groups that are often written out of traditional 'elite' historiography of 1857. This was achieved by the allotment of research time to the Principal applicant and Co-investigator and by the employment of two research assistants. Together this research team aimed at producing a single authored monograph, and several academic articles. 2. To create a network of interested scholars nationally and internationally and to make Edinburgh the focal point for researchers working on projects relating to the seminal events of 1857. It was a major objective of the project to bring together the most cutting edge research in the field. To this end there were conferences in Edinburgh and New Delhi in 2007, a further conference in London in 2008, together with workshops, seminars and quarterly meetings of interested scholars. The outcome was the production of edited volumes bringing together the best of on-going research. 3. To take advantage of the 150th Anniversary of the Uprising to raise public interest and to disseminate the findings of the research to a wide audience, both within and outside the academic community. This was to be achieved through collaboration with institutions such the National Library of Scotland, which organised an exhibition entitled 'Tea and Tiger' in 2007 and through public lectures, seminars and articles in the non-academic press. 4. To provide resources to assist with teaching on this subject, in both schools and universities, by the production of a website advertising the project and providing downloadable primary source material, abstracts of on going research, references and useful links. The aim was also to produce a source book containing primary source material, emphasising lesser known aspects of the Uprising, for the benefit of scholars and students.