by H. T. Lambrick, c.i.E.
Fellow of Oriel College. Oxford
Several years before the mutinous outbreak, ' A Bombay Officer ' published a series of pamphlets on the Bengal Army. ' There is more danger to our Indian Empire,' he wrote in 1850, 'from the state of the Bengal Army ... than from all other causes combined.'
Mr. Lambrick, who has recently completed the official biography of General John Jacob (the Bombay officer), discusses the reasons why the outbreak occurred among the regular Indian troops of the East India Company's Bengal Army, and why the Bombay and Madras Armies remained almost completely unaffected. The Muslims and the ' Mutin¡¡: by A. R. Mallick : May 20