''Two Months In Arrah'' is a book written on the

Siege of Arrah The siege of Arrah (27 July – 3 August 1857) took place during the Indian Mutiny (also known as the Indian Rebellion of 1857). It was the eight-day defence of a fortified outbuilding, occupied by a combination of 18 civilians and 50 members ...

in 1857, whose writer is J.J. Halls, an assistant surgeon in the

Bengal Army The Bengal Army was the army of the Bengal Presidency, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire. The presidency armies, like the presidencies themselves, belonged to the East India Company (EIC) until the Gover ...

of 1857, who was posted at the civil station of

Arrah Arrah (also transliterated as Ara) is a city and a municipal corporation in Bhojpur district, India, Bhojpur district (formerly known as Shahabad district) in the Indian state of Bihar. It is the headquarters of Bhojpur district, India, Bhojpur ...

and was one of the defenders in the siege. The account was originally written for the information of the author's friend in England but was later published in 1860.

Translations

Bhojpuri Bhojpuri may refer to: * Bhojpuri language, an Indo-Aryan language of India and Nepal * Bhojpuri grammar, grammatical rules of the language * Bhojpuri nouns, nouns of the language * Bhojpuri people, people who speak the language * Bhojpuri region ...

Author Pandey Kapil translated this book in Hindi as ''Ārā me do mās''.{{Cite book, last=, first=, title=1857 : Bihar Mein Mahayuddh, publisher=Raj Kamal Prakashan, year=, isbn=8126725257, location=, pages=

References

Arrah 1857 books Books about British India Books about the Mughal Empire