Rulers of India: The Earl of Mayo

Rulers of India
EDITED BY SIR WILLIAM WILSON HUNTER, K.C.S.I., C.I.E. M.A. (OXFORD): LL.D. (CAMBRIDGE)
London HENRY FROWDE
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS: 1891 Oxford PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS BY HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
NOTE
The orthography of proper names follows the system adopted by the Indian Government for the Imperial Gazetteer of India . That system, while adhering to the popular spelling of very well-known places, such as Punjab, Lucknow, &c., employs in all other cases the vowels with the following uniform sounds:—
a, as in wom a n: á, as in f a ther: i, as in pol i ce: í, as in intr i gue: o, as in c o ld: u, as in b u ll: ú, as in s u re: e, as in gr e y.


INTRODUCTION
The Life of Dalhousie dealt with the last accessions made to the British dominions in India under the East India Company. The present volume exhibits a memorable stage in the process by which those dominions, old and new, were welded together into the India of the Queen.
Between the two periods a time of trial had intervened. Northern India, drained of its European regiments in spite of the protests of Dalhousie, seemed during the agony of 1857 to lie at the mercy of the revolted native troops. The Mutiny left behind it many political lessons, and two historical facts. These facts were that the Sepoys in whom the East India Company gloried as its chief strength had proved its chief danger, and that the ruling princes of India, whom the Company always regarded as a main source of danger, had proved a source of strength.