Hul! Hul! - Peter Stanley

Drawing a variety of relevant and unexploited sources for the first time, Peter Stanley hasproduced the first comprehensive interpretation of the Hul, investigating why it occurred,how it was fought and why it ended as it did. Despite the Bengal Army virtually inventingcounterinsurgency operations in the field (and the Santals improvising their first war),the Hul came to an end amid starvation and disease. But between its bloody outbreak,its protracted suppression and its far-reaching effects, Stanley demonstrates that theHul was more than just 'execution'-it was indeed a war.