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The Singapore Mutiny of 1915: Understanding World War I in Global Perspective

First Edition ©2018 Heather Streets-Salter

This document collection encourages students to understand in concrete ways how alliances and hostilities created during World War I had effects that went far beyond the massive casualties of the European theaters by focusing on a single mutiny of an Indian regiment in Singapore during 1915. Student...
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Cover: The Singapore Mutiny of 1915: Understanding World War I in Global Perspective, 1st Edition by Heather Streets-Salter

This document collection encourages students to understand in concrete ways how alliances and hostilities created during World War I had effects that went far beyond the massive casualties of the European theaters by focusing on a single mutiny of an Indian regiment in Singapore during 1915. Students are guided through their analysis of the primary sources with an author-provided learning objective, central question, and historical context.

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Table of Contents

Central Question
Learning Objective
Historical Background 
Primary Sources    
Ottoman Fatwa by Essad Effendi, Sheik-ul-Islam, on Behalf of Mehmed V, November 11, 1914
Ghadar Party Article on the British Declaration of War, August 4, 1914
Copy of Regimental Order Number 100d, February 15, 1915 
Proceedings of the Court of Enquiry into the Causes of the Singapore Mutiny, May 1915
Censored Letters and Testimony for the Court of Inquiry of the 5th Light Infantry, February 1915
The British Consul, Memorandum of Facts Regarding the Dissemination of Sedition in British India through Agents in the Netherlands East Indies, June 29, 1915   
Photograph of the Execution of 22 Sepoys Convicted of Taking part in the Singapore Mutiny, March 25, 1915   
Project Questions
Additional Assignments
Additional Resources for Research  
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