Daily Life During The Indian Mutiny: Personal Experiences Of 1857 [Illustrated Edition]

John Walter Sherer

• Publisher: Normanby Press
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781786253675
• Topic: Storia
• Subtopic: Storia britannica

[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny]
Even a long experience of Indian and the customs of the Indians could have prepared John Sherer for the tumultuous events of the Indian Mutiny of 1857. A tax collector and magistrate, who first arrived in India in 1846, Sherer was posted to the North-West provinces when the Sepoy Revolt started. His experiences as narrated here form an interesting counter point to the military narratives that were written on the engagements of the mutiny. He and his fellow non-combatants and administrators were thrown to the wind as all the official British authorities attempted to put down the revolt. Widely lauded when the book was first published in 1910, it is a must for anyone interested in the Indian Mutiny.
"Mr Sherer gives a graphic account of the events he witnessed in the terrible times of the Mutiny. He has done right to publish the letters sent to him by Sir James Outram and others; they speak for themselves."—Glasgow Herald.
"It throws an interesting sidelight on those troublous times from a civilian non-combatant's point of view."—Pall Mall Gazette.
"Full of exciting adventure, with the added charm of actual personal experience. Written in a vigorous and picturesque style."—Bookseller.
"Mr Sherer's narrative is full of good stories, and he has done well to republish it in its present form."—Publishers' Circular.
"This publication will be interesting, instructive, and useful to the younger generation, as throwing a few sidelights on a momentous episode in our national history, and enabling them to estimate in some degree the anxiety, sorrow and horror which moved the nation in thrills and pulsations."—Shooting Times.

IN MEMORIAM

IT is sorrowful enough, in writing of the days to which this volume refers, to remember what ravages death then made amongst men who had passed their youth together, or had, at least, the pleasant tie of a common college. And now the long years have done their work, too, and we, who started from Haileybury some fifty or more years ago in such high spirits, are reduced to “ a sadly altered few.”

“En partant du Golfe d’Otrante,

Nous étions trente ;

Mais en arrivant à Cadiz,

Nous étions dix.”

Last year a tablet was erected in the chapel of Haileybury College to the memory of those Indian civilians who met their end in the Mutiny time. The proposal to put up a memorial was warmly accepted by the New Haileybury authorities, and, now it is finished and in place, it has their equally warm approval. This state of feeling is extremely gratifying. I give the inscription, but do not know by whom it was written. I cannot but remark that it seems to me very appropriate, and to fulfil every requirement of sentiment and taste.

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Figure 1 - Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, the Governor-General of India during the rebellion.

Figure 2 - Lord Dalhousie, the Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856, who devised the Doctrine of Lapse.

Figure 3 - Lakshmibai, The Rani of Maratha-ruled Jhansi, one of the principal leaders of the rebellion who earlier had lost her kingdom as a result of the Doctrine of ...

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Some Opinions of the Press
• DEDICATION
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• I-WITHDRAWAL
• II-SCENES AT BANDA
• III-NOMAD LIFE
• IV-MAKING FOR HEADQUARTERS
• V-HAVELOCK’S ADVANCE
• VI-CAWNPORE RE-OCCUPIED
• VII-THE RAINS OF 1857
• VIII-ANXIOUS WEEKS
• IX-DUNCAN’S HOTEL
• X-THE NUWAB’S HOUSE
• APPENDIX
• IN MEMORIAM