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so unquestioningly shed their blood together. Perhaps, for that very reason, we need to recall 1857 as frequently as we can.

NOTES

1. Figures derived from Parliamentary Papers by Haraprasad Chattopadhyaya, The Sepoy Mutiny, 1857, Calcutta, 1957, p.64.

2. J.W. Kaye, A History of the Sepoy War, I, 9th ed., London, 1880, p.502, fn.

3. Cf. H. Chattopadhyaya, pp.71-76.

4. Syed Abroad Khan, Asbab-i Baghawat-i Hindostan, ^'Causes of the Indian Revolt'), Appendix to Hali' s Hayat-i Jawed, Lahore, 1957, pp.926-7.

5. Kaye, I, p.62l.

6. These data are from Irfan Habib, Essays in Indian History-Towards a Marxist Perception, NewDelhi, 1995, pp.308-19. On the connection between the Revolt and the harshness of the Settlements, see also Syed Ahmad Khan, pp.906-9.

7. Quoted by Eric Stokes, The Peasant and the Raj, Cambridge, 1978, pp.195-96.

8. AC. Banerjee, Indian Constitutional Documents, II, Calcutta, 1946, p.24.

9. In: Cambridge Economic History of India, II, ed. Dharma Kumar, Cambridge, 1983, p.56.

10. S.AA Rizvi (ed.), Freedom Struggle in Uttar Pradesh, I, Lucknow, 1957, p.458.

11. L.E.S. Rees, A Personal Narrative of the Siege of Lucknow, London, 1858, pp.33-34.

12. Kaye, I, p.496.

13. Cf. Iqbal Husain, in: We fought together for Freedom, ed. Ravi Dayal, Delhi, 1995, p.18.

14. Percival Spear, Twilight of the Mughals, Cambridge 1951, pp.207-8.

15. S.AA Rizvi (ed.), II, [Lucknow], 1958, pp.155-6, 159, The entire pamphlet is translated, pp. 150-62.

16. S.AARizvi(ed.),I,p.453.

17. Transl. in S.N. Sen, Eighteen Fifty-seven, Delhi, 1957, pp.382-3.

18. See the original Urdu MS text, reproduced in S.N. Sen, between pp.74 and 75.

19. For photo reproduction, see S.AA Rizvi (ed.), I, Plate No. 19; a translation would be found on pp.451-2.

20. Transl. in S.AA Rizvi (ed.), I, pp.453-8.

21. Ibid., I, p.463.

22. Kaye, II, London, 1881, pp.270-71.



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