英国资产阶级历史学者写的有关1857年印度民族起义的著作,可以说是“汗牛充栋”。其中不少还是大部头的巨著,例如凱依(J.W.Kaye)和梅理逊(G.B.Maulleson)合著的“1857—1858年印度兵变史”(Historyof the Indian Mutiny of 1857—1858),就有六本之多,另外象侯姆斯(T.R.E.Hol-mes)著的“印度兵变史”(A History ofthe Indian Mutiny),也拥有五百多页的篇幅。这些著作,多半是站在英国殖民者的立场来宣扬英军的战绩,或者检讨统治印度的经验 The writings of the British bourgeois historians on the Indian national uprising of 1857 can be said to be “full of sweat.” Many of them are monumental books, such as History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-1858, co-written by JW Kaye and GB Maulleson Six more books, plus more than 500 pages in length, like TREHol-mes’s A History of the Indian Mutiny. Most of these books stand on the position of English colonists to promote British records or to review the experience of ruling India