Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Romance of the World
IN the history of our Indian Empire there had never been a time when the political horizon seemed so clear, so little oppressed by the storm clouds of war, as at the beginning of 1857. The Sikhs had been conquered, the Burmese sub dued, and with the annexation of Oude the last remnant of effective opposition to our rule appeared to be destroyed. True, the sepoys of the Bengal army had now and then shown symptoms of insubordination, and on at least one occasion it had been found necessary to disband a regiment. But these warnings were not taken seriously; no one imagined for a m'oment that the mutinous spirit would Spread over the whole of the native army, and that the sepoys in our service would one day turn their arms against the people whose empire they had assisted in building up.
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