Shahid Amin Eric Stokes, The Peasant Armed: The Indian Revolt of 1857 edited by C A Bayly; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986; pp xvi + 261, Rs 150.
ERIC STOKES, the late Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge, was a powerful presence in the world of colonial historiography Stokes wrote his celebrated study "English Utilitarians and India" in the late 1950s In the next two decades he published a host of provocative essays. At least two of these