India Under British Rule from the Foundation of the East India Company

by James Talboys Wheeler

SEPOY REVOLT: BENGAL, DELHI, PUNJAB.

1857.

[§1.] European soldiers and Asiatic sepoys. [§2.] Three British armies in India: Bengal, Bombay, and Madras. [§3.] Sepoy army of Bengal: Brahmans and Rajputs. [§4.] Enfield cartridges: general horror of pork: Hindu worship of the cow. [§5.] Agitation of the sepoys at Barrackpore. [§6.] First mutiny against the cartridges: Berhampore. [§7.] Second mutiny: Barrackpore. [§8.] Oudh: mutiny at Lucknow: suppressed. [§9.] Mutiny and massacre at Meerut. [§10.] Mohammedan revolt and massacre at Delhi: general excitement. [§11.] British advance from the Punjab to Delhi. [§12.] Siege of Delhi by Europeans, Sikhs, and Ghorkas. [§13.] Punjab and John Lawrence: antagonism between Sikhs and Mohammedans. [§14.] Sepoy plots at Lahore and Mian Mir; quashed. [§15.] Peshawar and frontier mountain tribes. [§16.] Execution of sepoy mutineers at Peshawar. [§17.] Brigadier John Nicholson: worshipped by a Sikh brotherhood. [§18.] Proposed withdrawal from Peshawar. [§19.] Mutiny at Sealkote: wholesale executions. [§20.] Siege and storm of Delhi, September 1857: peace in the North-West. Pages [185-231]

CHAPTER VI.

SEPOY REVOLT: NORTH WEST, CAWNPORE, LUCKNOW.

1857-58.

[§1.] Bengal and Lord Canning: General Neill's advance from Calcutta. [§2.] Sacred city of Benares: Hindu population overawed. [§3.] Fortress at Allahabad: treachery and massacre. [§4.] Cawnpore: extreme peril. [§5.] Story of Nana Sahib. [§6.] European refuge in the barracks. [§7.] Nana Sahib at Cawnpore: aspirations after Hindu sovereignty: delusion of General Wheeler. [§8.] Mutiny and treachery: barracks beleaguered by Nana Sahib. [§9.] First massacre at Cawnpore: massacre at Jhansi. [§10.] Advance of General Havelock. [§11.] Second massacre of women and children: the well. [§12.] Lucknow and Sir Henry Lawrence: May and June. [§13.] Siege of British Residency at Lucknow: July to September: death of Sir Henry Lawrence. [§14.] Havelock's advance and retreat. [§15.] Advance of Havelock and Outram. [§16.] Relief of Lucknow. [§17.] Sir Colin Campbell's advance: deliverance of the garrison. [§18.] Mutiny of the Gwalior contingent: defeated. [§19.] End of the mutiny and rebellion: causes Pages [232-274]

PART II.

BRITISH CROWN.