Chapter V: Sepoy Revolt: Bengal, Delhi, Punjab

1857.

§1. European soldiers and Asiatic sepoys. §2. Three British armies in
India: Bengal, Bombay, and Madras. §3. Sepoy army of Bengal:
Brahmans and Rajputs. §4. Enfield cartridges: general horror of
pork: Hindu worship of the cow. §5. Agitation of the sepoys at
Barrackpore. §6. First mutiny against the cartridges: Berhampore.
§7. Second mutiny: Barrackpore. §8. Oudh: mutiny at Lucknow:
suppressed. §9. Mutiny and massacre at Meerut. §10. Mohammedan
revolt and massacre at Delhi: general excitement. §11. British advance
from the Punjab to Delhi. §12. Siege of Delhi by Europeans, Sikhs,
and Ghorkas. §13. Punjab and John Lawrence: antagonism between
Sikhs and Mohammedans. §14. Sepoy plots at Lahore and Mian Mir;
quashed. §15. Peshawar and frontier mountain tribes. §16. Execution
of sepoy mutineers at Peshawar. §17. Brigadier John Nicholson:
worshipped by a Sikh brotherhood. §18. Proposed withdrawal from
Peshawar. §19. Mutiny at Sealkote: wholesale executions. §20. Siege
and storm of Delhi, September 1857: peace in the North-West.
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