09/20/1857 After several months of resistance to the indigenous mutiny sweeping India, British troops reconquer Dehli, the colonial capital. (By Brian Bockelman) Source Citation S. M. Burke and Salim Al-Din Quraishi, The British Raj in India: An Historical Review (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 34. Record Data Date Certainty Exact Type Foreign Relevance Personal People Places Delhi, India Images