This is the story of a forgotten newspaper that was in a league of its own, a banned daily that fueled India’s first war of independence, the indomitable Payam-e-Azadi. On the afternoon of 29 March 1857, Mangal Pandey, a sepoy of the 34th Bengal Native Infantry in Barrackpore, rebelled against his commanders, marking the inception of the Great Indian Sepoy Rebellion. A month earlier...
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