Index talk:The History of the Indian Mutiny volume 1.1.djvu

Some publication history

Dumping some info on this work's publication history here:

Significant and seminal Indian Mutiny books were also published in 1857 […]. These included Charles Ball's monumental two-volume The History of the Indian Mutiny: Giving a Detailed Account of the Sepoy Insurrection in India; and a Concise History of the great military events which have tended to consolidate British Empire in Hindostan,^[1] which was a detailed account of the Indian Mutiny with numerous eyewitness accounts; …

1. Charles Ball, The History of the Indian Mutiny: Giving a Detailed Account of the Sepoy Insurrection in India; and a Concise History of the great military events which have tended to consolidate British Empire in Hindostan, 2 vols. (New York: S.D. Brain, 1857; reprint, London: London Printing and Publishing, 1858-1859; reprint, New Delhi: Master Publishers, 1981; reprint [The History of the Indian Mutiny: Giving a Detailed Account of the Sepoy Insurrection in India], Lahore: Sang-E-Meel Publications, 2005). There are questions as to the exact date of publication of Ball’s work, considering some of its contents and references to other activities, military operations, and sources that can be dated. It is quite possible the first volume was reprinted in 1858 and the second volume printed initially in 1859. See, inter alia, Chaudhuri, English Historical Writings on the Indian Mutiny, pp. 68-69.

Source is:

• Raugh Jr., Harold E. (Winter 2016). "The Battle of the Books: An Indian Mutiny Historiography, Part One". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research (Society for Army Historical Research) 94 (380): 294–313. ISSN 0037-9700. JSTOR 44233134 – via JSTOR. 

@Billinghurst: FYI. --Xover (talk) 11:59, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

@Xover: Thanks. None of the information is going to make the identification of the author easy. Charles Ball ... 1857 USA, maybe in New York, or sub-continent, so anything that we can find to geo-locate, or be specific to biographical will be helpful. — billinghurst sDrewth 14:35, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Flicked through the 2016 article, and it doesn't particularly help. — billinghurst sDrewth 14:43, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

• He was "a jobbing historian and journalist who wrote a history of the Risorgimento and of the American War of Independence", according to: Chakravarty, Gautam. The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination (2005). p. 22. The Italian one is apparently Italy Illustrated: A Complete History of the Past and Present Condition of the Italian States (1860) by William C. Stafford and Charles Ball. --Xover (talk) 20:05, 22 June 2022 (UTC)