ABSTRACT

The effect of the Mutiny on Anglo-India can hardly be exaggerated. It is difficult to see why such terrible bitterness should have been roused among the English at the first news of revolt. The Bengal Hurkaru which had distinguished itself among other Anglo-Indian papers as an advocate of extermination, dilating on the wickedness of capital punishment and organised processions and mass meetings of Europeans " to achieve the gain of a human life, an existence which is forfeit to the public strangler. An Anglo-Indian Defence Association was formed; the Volunteers were urged to resign; and attempts were made to seduce the loyalty of the Army. Anglo-Indians of the eighteenth, and even of the first two decades of the nineteenth, century could hardly escape a close, often an uncomfortably close, acquaintance with the Indian world. The large double-doors which form the windows of an Anglo-Indian house stood open at night and were shut up tight in early morning.