ABSTRACT
The transference of power from the East India Company to the British Crown, which Disraeli accomplished, came, as we have seen, at an inau spicious moment. On the Indian side it was at first merely acquiesced in. Hearts were too sore to welcome it. On the English side, in spite of the Queen’s Proclamation, the atmosphere was far too tense for any sudden peace and reconciliation. Instead of this, terrible deeds of retribution and vengeance, with all the ruthless cruelty of panic, were perpetrated and then hushed up by an evil conspiracy of silence.
