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Title: The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Martin, Robert Montgomery, 1803?-1868 Roberts, Emma, 1794?-1840
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the assistant-commissioner of Mohumdee, Captain Patrick Orr,to his brother at Lucknow.§ Circumstantial narratives of the Shahjehanpoor mutiny were published in various Indian journals; but they contradict one another in important particulars, and are probably all equally fictitious. Budaon is about thirty miles from Ba-reilly. In the afternoon of Sunday, the31st, intelligence was received that crowds of released convicts were thronging the Bareilly road, and were already within eigh tmiles of Budaon; and further, that a detach-ment of the mutineers were in full march thither, in the assurance of being joined by the treasury guard in plundering and burning the station. The magistrate, Mr. Edwards, whose narrative has been already quoted, felt that the discontent of the population rendered it hopeless to attempt to oppose the insurgents. Mr. Phillips, the t Ostensibly by Orderly Panchkooree Khan. X Further Pari. Papers, 1857 ; p. 2.§ Gubbins Mutiny in Oudh, p. 123; Rees' Siege of Lucknow, p. 48.
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Mutinous Sepoys Dividing Spoil<br MUTINY AT BUDAON — May 31st, 1857. 215 magistrate of Etah, was at this time at Budaon, having come thus far on his way to Bareilly, whither he was proceeding to pro-cure military aid to put down disturbances in his own district. On learning what had occurred, he mounted his horse, and with an escort composed of a dozen horsemen (some belonging to different regiments of irregular horse, others common police sowars),dashed ofl at full gallop, in order to reach the Ghauts across the Ganges before the convicts or rebels could close the road, andprevent his return to Etah. Edwards was sorely tempted to make his escape also. His wife and child had previously found refuge at Nynee Tal; but he considered it his duty to stick to the ship as long as she floated.^He remained the only European officer in charge of a district, containing a lawless population of nearly 1,100 souls, with a Mohammedan deputy-collector for his sole assistant. I went, he says, into my room,and prayed earnestly that God would pr

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