Terence R. Blackburn
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The Mutiny in India began in 1857 and came as a total surprise to the British civil and military authorities. Among the native troops, malicious rumour had spread that the cartridges for the mew musket had been greased with beef and pork fat, the one sacred to the Hindu and the other an abomination to the Muslim.
It was claimed that the British authorities had an ulterior motive in wishing to deprive the Hindu of his caste, and defile the Muslim - an underhand ...
The aim of this book is to show the reader the gradual change of the roll of the British in India from merchant to ruler, from having a tenuous toehold on trading sites on the coast by permission of the local ruler to becoming the paramount power, putting down and setting up princes. All this was achieved with the aid of the native soldier, the sepoy, who, properly led was more than a match for the troops of the native princes, as is evidenced by the disparity in ...
The aim of this book is to show the length to which high officers of the East India Company would go to cover up malfeasance resulting from a failure to obey the orders of their superiors. The Council of Bombay was categorically instructed to inform the Raja of Sattara that his claim to certain lands was upheld. The Raja sent an agent to London to try to find out why he had not received a reply to his application. Apparently fearing that the truth would come out, ...
This book has been compiled from contemporary accounts of the First Afghan War, personal accounts, and the military despatches. These were sent to the Governor General at Calcutta or his summer retreat at Simla, from where they were soon published in the English or Vernacular Press. One is amazed at the frankness of the published material. The first hand descriptions of the suffering of the troops and camp followers make distressful reading, while the cruelty and ...
The tales in this book arose from a fortuitous purchase of several volumes of The Asiatic Journal etc., published during the first half of the 19 century. Its remarkable pages are crammed with letters, reports, articles and accounts of life experienced in India during those tumultuous days when the British were determined to take over the country, while the native rulers understandably resisted. These selected tales are an extraordinary collection of eye-witness ...