Comments on: The Trial of Mangal Pandey I

By: Dev

Dev — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:23:36 +0000

Error

in India are Indian capitalists

not
in India are capitalist

Anyway get your red flags out and wave them like mad when celebrating the mutiny.

By: Dev

Dev — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:20:05 +0000

John Company was not British, it was an English capitalist enterprise, Englishmen came to India with the best of motives, to get rich and eat curry. Silly phrases that one hears or reads such as, “When the British founded Calcutta”, etc., are rubbish. The ghats (cutta) of Kali (Cal) were already in place before Parker and his Brahmin wife turned up. Capitalism is infectious, English and French capitalists came to India and now the biggest capitalists in India are capitalist. The Indian mutiny (mutiny because the sepoys were in the pay of John Company and so were mutineers) was a great working class anti-capitalist uprising and should be celebrated as such, the mutineers being the vanguard of Indian socialism, so stop all of this capitalist nationalist rubbish and celebrate the mutiny as a great socialist internationalist historical event.

By: Kay

Kay — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:50:46 +0000

C H Drury is my 3xgreat grandfather. If Ken Goodall wants to contact me he can on kay@cresa.co.nz. I can give some history of the C H Drury.

By: The Gorilla’s Lament » It’s like Lagaan, but with violence instead of cricket.

Sun, 20 May 2007 22:20:59 +0000

[...] Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey (2005) is based on the legend of Mangal Pandey, rather than the historical figure. Depending on whom you ask, Mangal Pandey was either a brave martyr who kicked off India’s [...]

By: Kenneth Goodall.

Kenneth Goodall. — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:40:19 +0000

I have a medal named to Captain C H Drury.Major of Brigade.Would any body know any more details about this man.He may have been the Captain who testified about MANGAL PANDEYS character at his trial.Thank you for any information.Regards KEN Goodall

By: Jonathan Dresner

Jonathan Dresner — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Fantastic! I eagerly await the rest.

By: Rhyncus

Rhyncus — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I wonder how a person kneeling down can put a musket to his chest and try triggering it with his toe. Was that why he was unsuccessful in his attempt to kill himself?

By: shalini

shalini — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

waiting faor the rest.. great to read bout it with finer details.

By: arshad

arshad — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

i saw mangal pandey today, it was toooooooooo
much good i m too much impressed by this film
all things of this film is good

By: Sunny

Sunny — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Well….watching the movie was a big disappointment. I wonder why did Ketan Mehta take so much risk in making a film over Mangal Pandey about whom no reasonable information is available. And I would also like to know about this man Mangal Pandey.And was he a true patriot or just a patriot made by accident. I am trying to know more about this man over the net but am disappointed again. I hope you’ll help me come out of my disappointment!

By: sepoy

sepoy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

sunny: You can pick up Rudrangshu Mukherjee’s MANGAL PANDEY: BRAVE MARTYR OR ACCIDENTAL HERO?. a review.

As for your disappointment, try watching the Ashes.

By: Seshan

Seshan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Why all this fuss about whether Mangal Pandey was really instrumental in initiating the Sepoy Mutiny or not? To me, the picture has kindled the sleeping patriotic sense of several millions, especially the younger generations and that is a great contrast to the vulgarity, thy name is Indian Cinema.

By: Suresh Sampath

Suresh Sampath — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The book by Mukherjee is based on information in the official British record. The British of course wrote their version in such a way as to not inspire mutiny and added their version of the “truth”. Take that into consideration if you read that book.

By: hemant

hemant — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

i have read the book by mukherjee and seen the movie.by no means mangal can be put into patriotic category.he just tried to protect brahminical caste order of the day, that too under the influence of bhang.