Mutiny memoirs : being personal reminiscences of the great sepoy revolt of 1857

172 (14 B/W Illustrations & I Map)Back Of The BookThe memorable Sunday, 10th of may 1857, at the hour when better folk were on their way to church, I was reading a book in my own bungalow when my bearer Sheodeen suddenly rushed into the room, exclaiming that a bulla-goolla ( in our vernacular, a riot) was going on in the lines, that the sepoys had risen and were murdering the Sahib logue. Note for an instant did I believe the latter part of his story, even though the rapid and frequent reports of firearms, which now broke the quite of the Sabbath evening, made only too dear the truth of the first. The thought that flashed through my mind was that our men of the cavalry were attacking the Native Infantry in revenge for the sneers with which we all knew these others had freely since the punishment parade, lashed their submissive apathy in witnessing without an attempt at rescue, the degradation of their comrades. Sooth to say A.r.d. Mackenzie ; Edited By Mushirul Hasan. Perils Of The Besieged--cover.