This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...through the faithfulness of his native servants, and had come straight to the Commissioner's dwelling. Much as the Rajah enjoyed the details of the fearful scenes enacted at Boorghund, he was not insensible to a feeling of anxiety. At last the long-looked-for hour had fully come, and not alone in one place, but all ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...through the faithfulness of his native servants, and had come straight to the Commissioner's dwelling. Much as the Rajah enjoyed the details of the fearful scenes enacted at Boorghund, he was not insensible to a feeling of anxiety. At last the long-looked-for hour had fully come, and not alone in one place, but all over the country the flame of insurrection had burst forth. A magnificently equipped army was in hopeless revolt against the English. The majority of the great houses, powerful still in name and traditionary renown, were gathering troops and joining their influence against the usurping foreigners. All the European troops in India had, with a very few exceptions, been sent away to the Crimea, to Persia, to Burmah, to China, in short scattered everywhere; and the rebel troops, flocking round the green flag of the Padishah at Delhi, had with salvos of artillery hailed once more the descendant of Timour, the successor of the Great Mogul, as the Emperor of Delhi and the sovereign of India. All the chances seemed to be in favour of the rebels. The great arsenal at Delhi was in their hands. The people were, as a rule, if not dissatisfied with the government of the English, at any rate alarmed at the condition of things, and to a considerable extent hated the intruding strangers, and were therefore willing to afford assistance to the Sepoy army. The whole country had slipped away from beneath the feet of our people. More than a hundred thousand veteran troops, with halters round their necks, red with the blood of massacre, drunk with success, were hemming in the poor fragments of our broken forces in widely distant portions of the country. And yet Gongil Addah had some misgivings. He knew the character of the conquering people. In proportion as he despis...
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