Sahib (69 page)

103
Dickinson (ed.),
Miss Eden’s Letters,
P. 33.

104
J. W. Sherer,
Daily Life during the Indian Mutiny
(London: 1898), p. 59.

105
Charles John Griffiths,
A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi
(London: 1910), p. 60.

106
Griffiths,
Narrative,
p. 136.

107
Bancroft,
From Recruit to Staff Sergeant,
p. 11.

108
Bayley,
Reminiscences,
pp. 99-100.

109
Thomsett,
Peshawar Column,
pp. 55-6.

110
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
p. 136.

111
Paper currency was uncommon, although notes were soon issued by three private banks, the Carnatic Bank (1788), the Madras Bank (1795), the Asiatic Bank (1804) and the Madras Government Bank (1806). Several major European banking houses collapsed in 1827-28 (dishing Henry Havelock’s prospects of buying promotion) creating a general disruption in credit across the whole of Bengal, and presenting a serious challenge to British legitimacy.

112
Bessie Fenton,
The Journal of Mrs Fenton 1826-1830
(London: 1901), p. 67.

113
Violet Jacob,
Diaries and Letters from India 1895-1900
(Edinburgh: 1990), pp. 21-2.

114
Quoted in Pat Barr,
The Memsahibs
(London: 1976), p. 93.

115
Richards,
Old Soldier,
p. 159.

116
Morris and Winchester,
Buildings of The Raj,
p. 93.

117
Fraser,
Forty Years,
p. 80.

118
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
p. 117.

119
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
p. 29-9.

120
Elers,
Memoirs,
pp. 60-1.

121
Quennell (ed.),
William Hickey,
pp. 190, 251-2.

122
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
p. 29.

123
Russell,
Mutiny Diary,
p. 51.

124
Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Mother-Lodge’, in
Rudyard Kipling’s Verse, 1885-1932
(London: 1933), pp. 436-8.

125
Lady Julia Selina (Thesiger) Inglis,
The Siege of Lucknow
(London: 1892), p. 34.

126
L. R. Runtz Rees,
A Personal Narrative of the Siege of Lucknow
(London: 1858), p. 41.

127
See Edwardes,
Bound to Exile,
pp. 133-6.

128
Anson,
With HM 9th Lancers,
pp. 231, 187.

129
David Bromfield (ed.),
Lahore to Lucknow,
p. 127.

130
T. A. Heathcote,
The Indian Army: The Garrison of British Imperial India, 1822-1922
(Newton Abbot: 1974), P. 73.

131
Heathcote,
Indian Army,
p. 74.

132
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
p. 63.

133
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
p. 60.

134
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
pp. 136, 165.

135
Richards,
Old Soldier,
p. 85.

136
Low (ed.),
Fifty Years,
p. 155.

137
Maria Germon,
Journal of the Siege of Lucknow
(London: no date), p. 123.
Crannies
was slang for clerks, and also a vulgar word for Eurasians. It is impossible to be sure which Mrs Germon meant in this instance, but interesting to see how one word had two meanings, both derisive.

138
Fraser,
Sixty Years,
p. 119.

139
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
pp. 66-7.

140
Meadows-Taylor,
Story of My Life,
pp. 62-3.

141
Bayley,
Reminiscences,
p. 72.

142
Quoted in Edwardes,
Bound to Exile,
p. 32.

143
Fane,
Miss Fane,
p. 60.

144
Fane,
Miss Fane,
p. 235.

145
Diskinson (ed.),
Miss Eden’s Letters,
pp. 280-1.

146
Fanny Parkes,
Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque
(Manchester: 2000), p. 32.

147
F. A. Steel and G. Gardiner,
The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook
(London: 1904), pp. 54-5. The titles of some servants (and the wages of most) differed between the three presidencies of Bengal, Bombay and Madras: in Bombay the
khitmagar
was termed the
masaul
and in Madras he became the
matey.

148
The agricultural wage in 1803, for example, was between 12 and 18 rupees (£1-2) a year; by 1837 it had grown to 27-48 rupees. However, this consistently remained the equivalent of 41b of grain a day.

149
Fraser,
Forty Years,
p. 83.

150
Russell,
Mutiny Diary,
pp. 9, 11.

151
Thomsett,
Peshawar Column,
pp. 62-3.

152
Yeats-Brown,
Bengal Lancer,
pp. 16-17.

153
Quoted in Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, Earl of Birkenhead,
Rudyard Kipling
(London: 1978), p.60.

154
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
p. 64.

155
Swinson and Scott (eds),
Waterfield,
pp. 103-4.

156
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
p. 65.

157
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
p. 168.

158
Fane,
Miss Fane,
p. 62.

159
Barter,
Siege of Delhi,
p. 00.

160
Elers
Memoirs
p. 88.

161
Spear,
Nabobs,
p. 181.

162
Colonel H. C. Wyllie,
Neill’s Blue Caps
(Aldershot: no date), p. 317.

163
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
p. 60.

164
Bancroft,
From Recruit to Staff Sergeant,
p. 4.

165
Barter,
Siege of Delhi,
p. 19.

166
Hardcastle letters in British Library Oriental and India Office Collections, Photo Eur 332.

167
Richards,
Old Soldier,
p. 91.

168
Hardcastle letters in British Library Oriental and India Office Collections, Photo Eur 332.

169
Pictures in Anglesey,
Cavalry,
II, facing pp. 252-3.

170
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
p. 66.

171
Bayley,
Reminiscences,
p. 76.

172
Thomsett,
Peshawar Column,
pp. 114-15.

173
McFall,
Zhob Field Force,
pp. 51, 53.

174
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
p. 104.

175
Callwell,
Stray Recollections,
I, p. 147.

176
Bayley,
Reminiscences,
p. 73.

177
Gordon,
Purvis,
p. 85.

178
Lt Col. F. A. Hayden,
Historical Records of the 76th Hindoostan Regiment
(Lichfield: no date), pp. 194-5.

179
Sherer,
Daily Life,
p. 169.

180
Le Mesurier,
Kandahar,
p. 136.

181
Hayward,
Surgeon Henry’s Trifles,
p. 107.

182
Maj. A. E. Wardrop,
Modern Pig-Sticking
(London: 1914), p. 11.

183
Wardrop,
Pig-Sticking,
p. 130.

184
Wardrop,
Pig-Sticking,
p. 98.

185
Wardrop,
Pig-Sticking,
p. 146.

186
Wardrop,
Pig-Sticking,
pp. 211, 17, 200.

187
Yeats-Brown,
Bengal Lancer,
p. 7.

188
Jacob,
Diaries,
p. 35.

189
Germon, Journal, p. 45.

190
Shipp,
Paths of Glory,
p. 131.

191
Home,
Service Memoirs,
pp. 184-5.

192
Wilberforce,
Unrecorded Chapter,
pp. 89-90.

193
Le Mesurier,
Kandahar,
p. 12.

194
Richards,
Old Soldier,
p. 103.

195
Richards,
Old Soldier,
p. 133.

196
Richards,
Old Soldier,
pp. 170-2.

197
Meadows-Taylor,
Story of My Life,
p. 32.

198
Daly (ed.),
Memoirs,
p. 5.

199
‘Soldier bat’, in
The Londoner: Journal of I/25th Battalion The London Regiment,
February 1917, p. 69.

200
Lawrence,
India We Served,
p. 27.

201
Callwell,
Stray Recollections,
I, p. 255.

202
Quoted in Anglesey,
Cavalry,
II, pp. 300-1.

1
Steel and Gardiner,
Complete Indian Housekeeper,
p. 43.

2
Lutyens,
The Lyttons,
p. 41.

3
Lutyens,
The Lyttons,
p. 43.

4
Heathcote,
Indian Army,
p. 25.

5
Rait,
Gough,
II, p. 29.

6
Munro,
Coromandel Coast,
p. 320.

7
Shipp,
Paths of Glory,
p. 78.

8
Lunt (ed.),
Scarlet Lancer,
p. 152.

9
Barter,
Siege of Delhi,
p. 115.

10
Richard Hardcastle correspondence in British Library Oriental and India Office Collections.

11
Quoted in Bruce,
Six Battles,
p. 299.

12
Daly (ed.),
Memoirs,
p. 28.

13
Fane,
Miss Fane,
p. 118.

14
Quoted in Menezes,
Fidelity and Honour,
p. 75.

15
Quoted in T. A. Heathcote,
The Military in British India
(Manchester: 1995), P. 183.

16
Richards,
Old Soldier,
pp. 76-7.

17
Quoted in Leonard Moseley,
Curzon
(London: 1960), p. 98.

18
Marsham (ed.),
Havelock,
pp. 216, 220.

19
Marsham (ed.),
Havelock,
p. 221.

20
Quoted in Heathcote,
Military in British India,
p. 182.

21
Gordon,
Purvis,
p. 85.

22
Clark Kennedy,
Victorian Soldier,
p. 41.

23
Clark Kennedy,
Victorian Soldier,
p. 73.

24
Low (ed.),
Fifty Years,
pp. 47-8.

25
Low (ed.),
Fifty Years,
p. 120. But not quite enough good: young Deas was killed in the First Afghan War.

26
Low (ed.),
Fifty Years,
p. 348.

27
Here I follow Heathcote,
Indian Army,
p. 27.

28
Daly (ed.),
Memoirs,
pp. 61, 63.

29
Daly (ed.),
Memoirs,
p. 64.

30
MacGregor (ed.),
Life and Opinions,
I, p. 90.

31
Quoted Heathcote,
Indian Army,
p. 28.

32
Churchill,
Malakand Field Force,
p. 5.

33
Brig. Gen. J. H. Morgan,
Leaves from a Field Note Book
(London: 1916), p. 84.

34
Roberts,
Forty-One Years,
p. 213.

35
Olaf Caroe,
The Pathans
(London: 1965), p. 8.

36
Woodruff,
Guardians,
p. 292.

37
Lieutenant W. G. L. Benyon,
With Kelly to Chitral
(London: 1896), p. 72. Lieutenant Kelly’s prophecy was correct: all those in the force received the India Medal 1895-1902 with the bar ‘Relief of Chitral’.

38
Sherer,
Daily Life,
pp. 49-50.

39
Forrest (ed.),
Chamberlain,
p. 247.

40
Quoted in Allen,
Soldier Sahibs,
p. 6.

41
Forrest (ed.),
Chamberlain,
p. 247.

42
Daly (ed.),
Memoirs,
p. 169.

43
http://www.expressindia.com/ie/
daily200000517/ina17003/html

44
Allen,
Soldier Sahibs,
p. 75.

45
Quoted in Allen,
Soldier Sahibs,
p. 206.

46
Michael Edwardes,
Bound to Exile
(Newton Abbot: 1972), p. 100.

47
Quoted in Moon,
British Conquest,
p. 753.

48
Quoted in Allen,
Soldier Sahibs,
p. 56.

49
Wilberforce,
Unrecorded Chapter,
pp. 25-6.

50
Lawrence,
India We Served,
p. 164.

51
Roberts,
Forty-One Years,
p. 76.

52
Roberts,
Forty-One Years,
p. 33.

53
Colonel A. R. D. Mackenzie,
Mutiny Memoirs
(Allahabad: 1892), pp. 84-5.

54
Wilberforce,
Unrecorded Chapter,
p. 25.

55
Daly (ed.),
Memoirs,
p. 276.

56
Bromfield (ed.),
Lahore to Lucknow,
p. 65.

57
Roberts,
Forty-One Years,
pp. 130, 132.

58
Forrest (ed.),
Chamberlain,
p. 373.

59
Daly (ed.),
Memoirs,
p. 284.

60
Roberts,
Forty-One Years,
p. 61.

61
Daly (ed.),
Memoirs,
p. 268.

62
Daly (ed.),
Memoirs,
p. 287.

63
Daly (ed.),
Memoirs,
p. 337. By then the 1st Bombay European Fusiliers, which Daly had joined in 1840, had been taken into the British army as the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.