![]() It is possible that the title of the Russian edition was inspired by Savarkar's book, although some later writers wrongly state that the term was coined by Karl Marx. ![]() This English-language volume was based on a Russian-language edition, whose title does not include the word "First" either. Although Karl Marx never used the term "war of independence" to describe the event, a volume containing Karl Marx's New York Tribune articles on the topic was published in 1959 in Moscow under the title The First Indian War of Independence 1857–1859. The edition, titled The Volcano, or The First War of Indian Independence, was published by the Indian National Army (INA) and the Japanese Ministry of Propaganda. The word "first" appears in an edition of Savarkar's book published in 1945 in Kuala Lumpur. However, Savarkar did not use the word "first" in his original book. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar first used the term War of Independence to describe the 1857 uprising in his 1909 book The History of the War of Indian Independence, which was originally written in Marathi. Karl Marx was the first Western scholar to call the events of 1857 a "national revolt", although he used the term Sepoy Revolt to describe them. At the time, they used the term Indian Insurrection in the British and colonial press. Contemporary anti-imperialists viewed those terms as propaganda and pushed to characterise the uprising as more than just the actions of mutinous native soldiers. The British and colonial press, along with contemporary Europeans, referred to the events under a number of titles, the most common being the Sepoy Mutiny and the Indian Mutiny. Since the 19th century, a section of British writers have challenged the choice of the word "mutiny" to describe the events. Several British writers, who view it as a military disturbance, have termed it as "sepoy revolt", "sepoy war", "Indian rebellion", and the "great revolt". Several Indian writers, who consider it as a part of the Indian independence movement that ultimately led to the country's independence in 1947, have termed it as "The First War of Independence", the "great revolution", the "great rebellion", and the "Indian freedom struggle". The Indian Rebellion of 1857 has been variously termed as a war of independence, a rebellion, and a mutiny. Naming controversy regarding the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ![]()
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