December 1858.

Contents

INTRODUCTION.
PAGE
INDIA IN 1856: A RETROSPECT,[1]
NOTES.—DISTANCES—ORTHOGRAPHY—VOCABULARY,[12], [13]
CHAPTER I.
THE ANGLO-INDIAN ARMY AT THE TIME OF THE OUTBREAK,[14]
NOTE,[31]
CHAPTER II.
SYMPTOMS: CHUPATTIES AND CARTRIDGES,[32]
CHAPTER III.
MEERUT, AND THE REBEL-FLIGHT TO DELHI,[48]
CHAPTER IV.
DELHI, THE CENTRE OF INDIAN NATIONALITY,[59]
CHAPTER V.
THE EVENTFUL ESCAPES FROM DELHI,[69]
CHAPTER VI.
LUCKNOW AND THE COURT OF OUDE,[82]
CHAPTER VII.
SPREAD OF DISAFFECTION IN MAY,[97]
NOTES.—INDIAN RAILWAYS—‘HEADMAN’ OF A VILLAGE,[119]
CHAPTER VIII.
TREACHERY AND ATROCITIES AT CAWNPORE,[121]
NOTE.—NENA SAHIB’S PROCLAMATIONS,[145]
CHAPTER IX.
BENGAL AND THE LOWER GANGES: JUNE,[147]
NOTES.—THE OUDE ROYAL FAMILY—CASTES AND CREEDS IN THE INDIAN ARMY,[161], [162]
CHAPTER X.
OUDE, ROHILCUND, AND THE DOAB: JUNE,[163]
CHAPTER XI.
CENTRAL REGIONS OF INDIA: JUNE,[176]
CHAPTER XII.
EVENTS IN THE PUNJAUB AND SINDE,[191]
NOTES.—MILITARY DIVISIONS OF INDIA—ARMIES OF INDIA AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE MUTINY,[208]
CHAPTER XIII.
PREPARATIONS: CALCUTTA AND LONDON,[210]
NOTE,[227]
CHAPTER XIV.
THE SIEGE OF DELHI: JUNE AND JULY,[230]
CHAPTER XV.
HAVELOCK’S CAMPAIGN: ALLAHABAD TO LUCKNOW,[247]
CHAPTER XVI.
THE DINAPOOR MUTINY, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES,[264]
CHAPTER XVII.
MINOR MUTINIES: JULY AND AUGUST,[277]
NOTE.—THE BRITISH AT THE MILITARY STATIONS,[293]
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE SIEGE OF DELHI: FINAL OPERATIONS,[295]
CHAPTER XIX.
THE STORY OF THE LUCKNOW RESIDENCY,[316]
NOTE.—BRIGADIER INGLIS’S DISPATCH,[336]
CHAPTER XX.
MINOR CONFLICTS: SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER,[338]
CHAPTER XXI.
THE RESCUE AT LUCKNOW, BY SIR COLIN CAMPBELL,[359]
NOTE.—CAVANAGH’S ADVENTURE,[371]
CHAPTER XXII.
CLOSING EVENTS OF THE YEAR,[374]
NOTES.—PROPOSED RE-ORGANISATION OF THE INDIAN ARMY—PROPOSED INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES OF THE MUTINY,[386], [387]
CHAPTER XXIII.
A SECOND YEAR OF REBELLION,[388]
CHAPTER XXIV.
MILITARY OPERATIONS IN FEBRUARY,[398]
NOTES.—SIR COLIN CAMPBELL’S ARMY OF OUDE—MOHAMMEDAN REBEL LEADERS,[409], [410]
CHAPTER XXV.
FINAL CONQUEST OF LUCKNOW: MARCH,[412]
NOTE.—LUCKNOW PROCLAMATIONS,[427]
CHAPTER XXVI.
MINOR EVENTS IN MARCH,[429]
NOTES.—‘COVENANTED’ AND ‘UNCOVENANTED’ SERVICE—COLLECTORS AND COLLECTORATES,[443]
CHAPTER XXVII.
DISCUSSIONS ON REBEL PUNISHMENTS,[446]
NOTES,[455]-[461]
CHAPTER XXVIII.
MILITARY OPERATIONS IN APRIL,[462]
NOTE.—NATIVE POLICE OF INDIA,[480]
CHAPTER XXIX.
PROGRESS OF EVENTS IN MAY,[482]
NOTE.—TRANSPORT OF TROOPS TO INDIA,[501]
CHAPTER XXX.
ROSE’S VICTORIES AT CALPEE AND GWALIOR,[504]
CHAPTER XXXI.
STATE OF AFFAIRS AT THE END OF JUNE,[517]
NOTE.—QUEEN’S REGIMENTS IN INDIA IN JUNE,[535]
CHAPTER XXXII.
GRADUAL PACIFICATION IN THE AUTUMN,[537]
CHAPTER XXXIII.
LAST DAYS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY’S RULE,[561]
SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER.
§ 1. THE PERSIAN EXPEDITION, 1856-7,[578]
§ 2. THE CHINESE AND JAPANESE EXPEDITIONS, 1856-7-8,[585]
§ 3. ENGLISH PROSPECTS IN THE EAST,[604]
APPENDIX.
EAST INDIA COMPANY’S PETITION TO PARLIAMENT, JANUARY 1858,[613]
EAST INDIA COMPANY’S OBJECTIONS TO THE FIRST AND SECOND INDIA BILLS: APRIL 1858,[618]
EAST INDIA COMPANY’S OBJECTIONS TO THE THIRD INDIA BILL: JUNE 1858,[621]
ABSTRACT OF ACT FOR THE BETTER GOVERNMENT OF INDIA—RECEIVED ROYAL ASSENT AUGUST 2, 1858,[622]
THE INDIAN MUTINY RELIEF FUND,[623]
QUEEN VICTORIA’S PROCLAMATION TO THE PRINCES, CHIEFS, AND PEOPLE OF INDIA,[623]
VISCOUNT CANNING’S PROCLAMATION,[624]
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE,[625]
INDEX,[629]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Delhi,[1]
Initial Letter,[1]
Tail-piece,[13]
Initial Letter,[14]
Boats on the Ganges,[19]
Palanquin,[21]
Indian Domestics,[22]
Group of Sepoys,[28]
Bungalow,[29]
Troops on the March,[30]
Initial Letter,[32]
Viscount Canning,[41]
Calcutta,[43]
Council-house at Calcutta,[47]
King’s Palace, Delhi,[48]
Initial Letter,[48]
Laboratory at Meerut,[55]
Dâk Runner,[58]
Initial Letter,[59]
Bird’s-eye view of Delhi.—From a Coloured Lithograph by A. Maclure; taken from Original Native Drawings,[64]
Howdah of an Indian Prince,[68]
King of Delhi,[69]
Initial Letter,[69]
Escape from Delhi,[73]
Delhi from Flagstaff Tower,[76]
Elephant and State Howdah,[81]
Lucknow,[82]
Initial Letter,[82]
Sir Henry Lawrence,[92]
Residency at Lucknow,[93]
Ekah, or Officer’s Travelling Wagon,[96]
General View of Calcutta from Fort William,[97]
Initial Letter,[97]
Ghât on the Ganges,[105]
City and Fort of Allahabad,[108]
Agra Fort,[109]
Nynee Tal—a Refuge for European Fugitives,[116]
Palanquin,[120]
Parade-ground, Cawnpore,[121]
Initial Letter,[121]
Nena Sahib.—From a Picture painted at Bithoor in 1850, by Mr Beechy, Portrait-painter to the King of Oude,[124]
The Intrenchment at Cawnpore,[128]
Plan of Sir H. Wheeler’s Intrenchment at Cawnpore.—From an Official Survey,[129]
House at Cawnpore, in which the Women and Children were massacred,[141]
The Well at Cawnpore,[146]
House of the Rajah at Allahabad,[147]
Initial Letter,[147]
Mess-house of the Officers of the 6th Native Infantry at Allahabad,[157]
Sikh Cavalry,[162]
Initial Letter,[163]
Simla, the Summer Residence of the Governor-general of India,[173]
Tomb at Futtehpore Sikri,[175]
Initial Letter,[176]
Fort of Mhow,[185]
Girls at the Ganges,[190]
Akali of the Sikhs,[191]
Initial Letter,[191]
Sir John Lawrence,[193]
Camel and Rider,[205]
Catholic Church, Sirdhana; built by Begum Sumroo,[209]
Sir Colin Campbell,[210]
Initial Letter,[210]
General View of Madras.—From a Drawing by Thomas Daniell,[216]
Bombay.—From a View in the Library of the East India Company,[217]
Jumma Musjid, Agra; Mosque built by Shah Jehan in 1656,[229]
Initial Letter,[230]
Sir Henry Barnard,[232]
Hindoo Rao’s House—Battery in front,[237]
The General and his Staff at the Mosque Picket before Delhi,[240]
General Wilson,[244]
Engineer Officers in Battery before Delhi,[245]
Bullock-wagon,[246]
Sir Henry Havelock,[247]
Initial Letter,[247]
Plan of Action near Cawnpore, July 16, 1857,[252]
Plan of Action near Bithoor, August 16, 1857,[257]
Brigadier-general Neill,[261]
Initial Letter,[264]
Major Vincent Eyre,[265]
Mr Boyle’s House at Arrah, defended for seven days against 3000 rebels,[269]
Initial Letter,[277]
Fort at Agra, from the river Jumna,[281]
Mount Aboo—Military Sanatarium in Rajpootana,[292]
Native Musicians at a Sepoy Station,[294]
Brigadier-general Nicholson.—Copied by permission from a Portrait published by Messrs Gambart,[295]
Initial Letter,[295]
Jumma Musjid at Delhi.—From a Photograph,[304]
Corporal Burgess, blown up at Cashmere Gate,[308]
Scene of capture of the Princes of Delhi—Tomb of Emperor Humayoon,[313]
State Palanquin,[315]
Sir J. E. W. Inglis, Defender of Lucknow,[316]
Initial Letter,[316]
Plan of Residency and part of the City of Lucknow,[321]
English Church and Residency at Lucknow—from Officers’ Quarters,[329]
Mr Colvin, Lieutenant-governor of Northwest Provinces,[338]
Initial Letter,[338]
Camp within the Fort, Agra.—From a Photograph,[349]
Lieutenant Home, Bengal Engineers,[352]
Colonel Burn, Military Governor of Delhi,[356]
Ruins near Kootub Minar, Delhi,[358]
Lucknow, from the Observatory,[359]
Initial Letter,[359]
Plan of the Residency and its Defences, Lucknow,[362]
Plan of Fort of Alum Bagh, near Lucknow,[370]
Group of Mahratta Arms.—From the Collection of Sir S. Meyrick,[373]
Initial Letter,[374]
Plan of the Battle of Cawnpore, December 6, 1857,[379]
St James’s Church, Delhi,[384]
Tail-piece,[387]
Colonel E. H. Greathed,[388]
Initial Letter,[388]
Houses in the Chandnee Chowk, Delhi,[396]
Tail-piece,[397]
Sir James Outram,[398]
Initial Letter,[398]
Moulvies, or Mohammedan Religious Teachers,[408]
Tail-piece,[411]
Goorkhas in their native country, Nepaul,[412]
Initial Letter,[412]
Gateway of the Emanbarra at Lucknow,[420]
Major Hodson, Commandant of Hodson’s Horse,[425]
Hindoo Metallic Ornaments,[428]
Barrackpore,[429]
Initial Letter,[429]
Kootub Minar, near Delhi,[436]
Obelisk built on the Site of the Black Hole, Calcutta.—From a Drawing in the India House,[441]
Group of Indian Arms,[445]
Zemindar, Hindoo Landowner,[446]
Initial Letter,[446]
East India House,[452]
Ganges Transport Boat,[461]
Jung Bahadoor, of Nepaul,[462]
Initial Letter,[462]
Goorkha Havildar or Sergeant,[468]
Ghazeepore,[471]
Fort of Peshawur,[477]
Tail-piece,[481]
Summer Costumes, Indian Army,[482]
Initial Letter,[482]
Dacca,[485]
Fyzabad,[489]
Hindoo Fruit-girl,[493]
Tail-piece,[503]
Sir Hugh Rose,[504]
Initial Letter,[504]
Gwalior,[512]
The Ranee of Jhansi,[513]
Darjeeling—Hill Sanatarium in Sikkim,[517]
Initial Letter,[517]
Principal Street in Lucknow,[524]
Surat.—From a View in the Library of the East India Company,[528]
Lahore,[529]
Kolapore,[533]
Tail-piece,[536]
Initial Letter,[537]
Almorah, Hill-station in Kumaon,[537]
Interior of Hindoo Rajah’s House,[545]
Umritsir,[549]
Jeypoor,[556]
Poonah,[559]
Hyderabad,[560]
Government Buildings, Madras.—From a Drawing by Thomas Daniell,[561]
Initial Letter,[561]
Old East India House, Leadenhall Street,[574]
Calcutta.—Company’s Troops early in the 19th Century,[576]
Ormuz—Entrance to the Persian Gulf,[577]
Initial Letter,[577]
Bushire,[585]
Chinese War-junks,[589]
Canton,[592]
Hong-Kong,[600]
Sir Edward Lugard,[604]
Fort St George, Madras; in 1780,[608]
Tail-pieces,[612], [624]

Various Tail-pieces, Vignettes, &c.