Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 CHAPĀTĪS
- 2 GREASED CARTRIDGES
- 3 THE PRESIDENCY DIVISION, FEBRUARY TO MAY
- 4 REGIMENTS AND OFFICERS AT MEERUT
- 5 MEERUT CANTONMENT IN 1857
- 6 THE FIRING PARADE OF 24 APRIL AND ITS SEQUEL
- 7 THE OUTBREAK: (a) The Native Infantry Lines
- 8 THE OUTBREAK: (b) The Native Cavalry Lines
- 9 THE OUTBREAK: (c) The Bazar Mobs
- 10 THE OUTBREAK: (d) The European Troop Movements and the European Lines
- 11 THE HANDLING OF THE EUROPEAN TROOPS
- 12 TO DELHI
- 13 CONCLUSIONS
- Notes and References
- Index
- Plan of Meerut Cantonment in 1857
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 CHAPĀTĪS
- 2 GREASED CARTRIDGES
- 3 THE PRESIDENCY DIVISION, FEBRUARY TO MAY
- 4 REGIMENTS AND OFFICERS AT MEERUT
- 5 MEERUT CANTONMENT IN 1857
- 6 THE FIRING PARADE OF 24 APRIL AND ITS SEQUEL
- 7 THE OUTBREAK: (a) The Native Infantry Lines
- 8 THE OUTBREAK: (b) The Native Cavalry Lines
- 9 THE OUTBREAK: (c) The Bazar Mobs
- 10 THE OUTBREAK: (d) The European Troop Movements and the European Lines
- 11 THE HANDLING OF THE EUROPEAN TROOPS
- 12 TO DELHI
- 13 CONCLUSIONS
- Notes and References
- Index
- Plan of Meerut Cantonment in 1857
Summary
On the evening of Sunday 10 May 1857 there occurred at Meerut, about 40 miles north-east of Delhi, the outbreak of the native regiments which marked the real beginning of the Indian Mutiny. This outbreak at Meerut is the true subject of the present volume and I should like at the outset to define as exactly as possible the scope and intention of the work, so as to avoid misunderstanding on the part of any reader. This is not a full study of the origins of the Mutiny, such as is to be found in the classic work of Sir John Kaye or the more recent but no less admirable work of S. N. Sen. To those works the reader is referred for the full prolegomena to the history of the actual Mutiny itself: he may, if he wishes, push his examination further into the collections of the papers of former Viceroys or Presidents of the Board of Control now surviving in the India Office Library but either not available to, or not fully examined by, the distinguished historians just mentioned. Except to the extent which is specified below, the general subject of the origins or causes of the Mutiny falls beyond the scope of the present work.
It may be remarked that for the purposes of the following pages such unexamined or imperfectly examined collections of papers of former Viceroys or other exalted personages would only be of use if containing an unknown contemporary eyewitness account of the events at Meerut (or at Delhi next morning) which I am about to attempt to describe.
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- The Mutiny Outbreak at Meerut in 1857 , pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1966