Identifier: indianmutinyof1801mall (find matches)
Title: The Indian mutiny of 1857
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Malleson, G. B. (George Bruce), 1825-1898
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Publisher: London, Seeley and co., limited
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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rompt repression.Accordingly, he marched that night, with the three nativeregiments I have enumerated, the 32d Foot, and a bat-tery of eight guns, against the peccant regiment. Themen of that regiment, terrified by this demonstration, sub-mitted without a blow. They laid down their arms at thegiven order, and allowed their ringleaders to be arrested,with every sign of penitence and submission. On the 4th of May the electric wire flashed to LordCanning an account of this mutiny and its repression. Itwas the receipt of this news which decided his vacillatingcouncil to disband the 34th, a measure which, we haveseen, was carried out on the 6th. The effect which thesimple disbanding of a mutinous regiment produced onthe other native regiments of the same brigade was illus-trated a few days later. A Jamadar of the 70th N. I.was arrested at Barrackpur in the act of urging his mento rise in revolt. Brought to trial before a court com-posed of native officers of his own caste, he was sentenced
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Oa^ncLe/^. (be- Effect of the Disbanding of the 34/^. 6t merely to dismissal. Unfortunately this lenient punish-ment for mutiny was approved and confirmed by theCommander-in-Chief. The publication of this approvalproduced the worst effects. Unfortunately for Lord Canning, himself one of thenoblest of men, there was no one about him to tell himthat the punishment of disbandment in such times ashe was entering upon was no punishment at all. Therewas not a native regiment in the Bengal Presidencywhich was not at this period not only ready to disbanditself, but to turn with all the fury of men excited byfancied wrongs against the masters they had served. Butthe truth is there was not a man about him who hadpenetrated below the surface, who had the wit to see thatthis disaffection was no ephemeral feeling, to disappearat the bidding of a few hard words. In the language ofthe Home Secretary, employed when the discontent hadbecome infinitely more pronounced than it was at the be-ginning of M

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