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The story of 1857 revolt is written with profuse blood and tars. For once India seemed to have woken up as a determined, united nation. Through a series of inter-related uprisings, she almost succeeded in banishing the conquering British merchants out of India. History, however, had something else in store. The war of independence which promisingly began in Barrackpore ended in an enormous tragedy at Delhi. There a lowly British subaltern accepted the surrender ...
The book is a collection of unpublished letters and Journals of political and military officers employed in Afghanistan throughout the entire period of the war. The author was in India during the period of war, but he never took even the humblest part in any of the events related to war but Promises that the work is trust worthy and authentic. In most cases he had in his posession the original letters and documents in the rest authenticated copies. These volumes ...