Author : William Muir
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ISBN 13 : 9781331322498
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (224 download)
Book Synopsis Records of the Intelligence Department of the Government of the North-West Provinces of India, Vol. 1 by : William Muir
Download or read book Records of the Intelligence Department of the Government of the North-West Provinces of India, Vol. 1 written by William Muir and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Records of the Intelligence Department of the Government of the North-West Provinces of India, Vol. 1: During the Mutiny of 1857, Including Correspondence With the Supreme Government, Dehli, Cawnpore, and Other Places For some time I have been pressed to give the family an account of our experience during the Mutiny of 1857. I shrank at first from the idea, and put it quite aside. By and by, however, the reasonableness of the request grew upon me. Five of our children were for several months shut up with us in the Fort, and for the whole family it was a time of great anxiety. Anything of a literary or historical character was, of course, out of the question; but it appeared on consideration quite possible, and for the above reason right and proper, that I should give a simple outline of that eventful period, in so far as it affected us personally. Musing thus, I was led to look over the half-dozen volumes of Mutiny records which I kept up in 1857 when in charge of the Intelligence Department, and which I had cast aside amid other old documents relating to my work in India. And I turned also to Kaye's account of Agra, in his Sepoy War, where I was startled to read this long-forgotten passage: - "We had wisely organised an Intelligence Department, of which William Muir had the chief direction. It was highly important at such a time that reliable information should be obtained from the Officers of Government themselves, in place of the gossip of the bazaars, or the confused statements of frightened messengers, and no man could have done the work better than Muir. The semi-official or private correspondence that came in from day to day was full of the most instructive and suggestive details. It was said that he was a little over-chary in the dissemination of the intelligence he obtained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
