[2] See Vincent Smith’s “Early History of India,” third edition, p. 135.
[3] “Mr. Vincent Smith is always anxious to deprive India of the credit of all her achievements in art and literature.” Indian Historical Studies by Prof. H. D. G. Rawlinson, p. 227.
[4] The italics in the above quotation are mine.
[5] See also Mr. E. B. Havell’s Ideals of Indian Art, pp. 11-12. Mr. Havell’s conclusion is: “We may see if we have eyes to see, that all India is one in spirit, however diverse in race and in creed.”
[6] First Edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1905.
[7] See footnote to p. 5, of his “Early History of India,” 3rd ed.
[8] A town on the Eastern Coast of India.
[9] Some of these sentences have been reduced.
[10] In 16 cases these sentences have been commuted to life-long imprisonment not out of mercy as the Viceroy has himself officially pointed out, but in consideration of the evidence.
[11] The great mutiny of 1857, of which more hereafter.