On July 10, 1806, exactly two hundred years ago, as themoon shone over the ramparts of the Vellore fort, at 2 a.m., Indian sepoys rosein a bloody revolt against the East India Company’s garrison. As ...

Tamil Nadu, which played an important role in the country’s freedom struggle and produced a number of sterling leaders during the national movement, had to its credit recorded an event, the Vellore ...

On 17 July 1806, British authorities in colonial Madras rescinded a four-month-old order that had bathed the countryside in a monsoon of blood. A week earlier, soon after the moon rose on the night of ...

The fort in Vellore dwarfs everything else in the city like a massive man o’ war in a small bay. I spent two days exploring it, and marvelled at its vastness, the solidity of its construction and the ...

Vellore: The district administration officials and police paid homage to the martyrs of the Vellore mutiny on Tuesday to mark the 212th anniversary of the revolt against the British, at the Martrys ...

The Vellore Uprising that occurred on this day is considered the first major armed movement by Indian “sepoys” against the British East India Company, predating the 1857 Uprising. Both Hindu and ...