Chapter VI

SEPOY REVOLT: NORTH WEST, CAWNPORE, LUCKNOW.

1857-58.

§1. Bengal and Lord Canning: General Neill's advance from Calcutta.
§2. Sacred city of Benares: Hindu population overawed. §3. Fortress
at Allahabad: treachery and massacre. §4. Cawnpore: extreme peril.
§5. Story of Nana Sahib. §6. European refuge in the barracks. §7.
Nana Sahib at Cawnpore: aspirations after Hindu sovereignty:
delusion of General Wheeler. §8. Mutiny and treachery: barracks
beleaguered by Nana Sahib. §9. First massacre at Cawnpore: massacre
at Jhansi. §10. Advance of General Havelock. §11. Second massacre
of women and children: the well. §12. Lucknow and Sir Henry
Lawrence: May and June. §13. Siege of British Residency at Lucknow:
July to September: death of Sir Henry Lawrence. §14. Havelock's
advance and retreat. §15. Advance of Havelock and Outram. §16.
Relief of Lucknow. §17. Sir Colin Campbell's advance: deliverance
of the garrison. §18. Mutiny of the Gwalior contingent: defeated.
§19. End of the mutiny and rebellion: causes. _Pages_ 232-274

PART II.

_BRITISH CROWN._

CHAPTER THE LAST.

CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT.

1858-1886.

§1. Awakening of the British nation. §2. Government Education in India:
Toleration. §3. British Rule after the Mutiny: Legislative Council of
1854 and Executive Council: Wrongs of Non-Official Europeans.
§4. Mr. James Wilson and his Income-Tax. §5. New Legislative
Council of 1861-62. §6. New High Court: proposed District Courts.
§7. Lord Canning leaves India. §8. Lord Elgin, 1862-63. §9. Sir John
Lawrence, 1864-69: Governments of Madras and Bombay: Migrations to
Simla: Foreign Affairs. §10. Lord Lawrence leaves India. §11. Lord
Mayo, 1869-72. §12. Lord Northbrook, 1872-76: Royal visits to
India. §13. Lord Lytton, 1876-80: Empress Proclaimed. §14. Second
Afghan War. §15. Political and Judicial Schools. §16. Constitution
of British India: proposed Reforms. _Pages_ 275-302

INDEX _Pages_ 303-312

INDIA UNDER BRITISH RULE.