OUR ARM Y IN INDIA.
Casual readers of the military history •of India often fancy that the mutiny of 1857 was unprecedented. That it was so in magnitude is happily tiue ; but other insurrections —refusals to obey legitimate authority, and attempts to subvert the power of the military commanders—had happened at various times and in various parts of both the Madrasand Bengal Presidencies. In 1822 the 6th Madras Cavalry mutinied at Arcot and in 1824 the 84th Bengal Infantry at Ferozepore refused to march to Scinde, and the 64th Bengal Infantry mutinied at Umballa unless their pay and allowances were increased. In 1845 the 6th Madras Native Cavalry mutinied at Jubbnlpore, and the 46th Madras Native Infantry mutinied when ordered to Scinde. In 1849-50 several regiments of Bengal Native Infantry stationed in the Punjaub either broke into open rebellion or were prepared to ■do so. Speaking of Sir Charles Napier’s tour of inspection of the principal military stations in the Northern Provinces of India in 1842, Sir J. Kaye says, “ At Delhi the Commander-in-Chief found unmistakable signs of a ■confederation of many regiments determined not to serve in the Punjaub, except on the higher pay. One regiment there, warned for service beyond the Sutlei declared its intention not to march, but it was conciliated by a liberal grant of furlough, which had 'been before withheld, and it went on to its destination. Napier believed that the spirit of disaffection was widely spread. He had heard ominous reports of twentyfour regiments prepared to -strike, and when he entered the Punjaub he was not surprised to find that mutiny was there, only in a form of suspended activity and that any moment it might burst out all the more furiously for this temporary suppression.”
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Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 130, 19 March 1879, Page 3
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292OUR ARMY IN INDIA. Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 130, 19 March 1879, Page 3
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