Synopsis This six-volume set brings together an exhaustive survey of thousands of contemporary files; official reports and original consultations; proceedings of foreign, political, revenue, and judicial departments; published state papers; intelligence reports; parliamentary papers and debates; contemporary Urdu and English newspapers and periodicals; published diaries and memoirs of officers; and published contemporary works in Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Marathi, and English. Together they provide a very detailed and comprehensive account of the freedom struggle in Uttar Pradesh, particularly the years 1857-9. S.A.A. Rizvi's annotations and editorial remarks bring a coherence and chronology to the documents. The last volume serves as a very useful index to the nature of source material.