The Mutinies and the People or Statements of Native Fidelity: Exhibited During the Outbreak of 1857-58

This book is not a serious historical study of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. It should better be described as a handy volume of newspaper cuttings, with a sprightly running commentary of the author. The work has an impressive contemporaneity, which may be marred by editorial emendations. It is also an interesting document which clearly reveals the ideology and the milieu of a young Bengali journalist of the mid-nineteenth century.