The Personal Adventures and Experiences of a Magistrate During the Rise, Progress, and Suppression of the Indian MutinyIn 1857, when the Indian Mutiny broke out, Mark Thornhill (1822-1900) was the magistrate of Muttra, modern Mathura. His vivid account of ensuing events - published in 1884 - including a night ride to Agra through the rebel army and the developing tensions inside the fort, was well reviewed at the time, and, more recently, became one of the sources for J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur. Also including excursuses on the history and architecture of Agra from the time of Babur, and ghost stories pertaining to it - Thornhill published a separate volume of Indian fairy tales - the narrative is notably modern in its acute psychological perceptions of response to violence and its conservationist concern for damage to buildings. Thornhill wrote the book as an historical analysis, and his conclusions about the underlying causes of the Mutiny illuminate subsequent developments in the region as well as the conflict he describes. |
Contents
THE ASSEMBLING OF THE ARMY | 9 |
RURAL DISTURBANCES | 27 |
THE MUTINY OF THE GUARD | 37 |
FLIGHT TO AGRA | 47 |
7?lled | 66 |
DEFENCE OF THE CITY | 75 |
THE PLUNDERING OF THE TREASURY | 83 |
THE CITY OF MUTTRA | 90 |
A MIDNIGHT Rr1Ec0ntznued | 165 |
BATTLE | 177 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 190 |
THE FORT OF AGRA | 208 |
QUARRELS | 258 |
THE EXPEDITION | 265 |
MR e0LvINs DEATH | 272 |
XXXL THE BATTLE OF AGRA | 294 |
A VILLAGE RAJAH | 102 |
THE KOTAH | 110 |
THE APPROACH OF THE ENEMY | 117 |
CLOSING AROUND | 127 |
A MIDNIGHT RIDE | 136 |
THE BATTLEFIELD | 305 |
AFTER THE BATTLE | 313 |
WHAT CAUSED THE MUTINY? 32 0 | 330 |
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