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५३४ H. 344.243 " It was a most favourable moment for recovering his lost authority. It was merely necessary to accede to the proposal of the mutinious contigents & to revenge himself on the British. Had he so acceded and put himself at the head and accompanied likewise by His trusty Marhattas, and proceeded to the scene of action, the consequences would have been most disastrous to ourselves. He would have brought at least twenty thousand troops-and half of them drilled and disciplined by European officers-on our weak points. Agra and Lucknow would have been at once fallen. Havelock would have been shut up, in Allahabad, and either that fortress would have been beseiged or the rebels giving it a wide berth, would have marched through Benares on to Caloutta. There were no troops, no fortification to stop them."-Red Pamphlet Page 941. सं. ३६ पृ २५४ "Wherever the Chiefs of the Native States hesitated to join the revolution, the people of the States became uncontrollable and tried to throw off the yoke even of their own chief, if he would not join the nation's War. Seeing this extraordinary upheaval of the populace Malleson says:~Here too, as at Gwalior, as at Indore, it was plainly shown that, when the fanaticism of the oriental people is thoroughly roused. not even their king, their Raja-their father as all consider him, their God as some delight to style him-not even their Raja can bend them against their convictions." The Sepoys of the Raja of Jaypur and Jodhpur refused point blank to raise their hands against their countrymen who were fighting for the nation, even when asked by their Rajas to do so."-Malleson's Indian Mutiny, Vol. III Page 17% सं. ३७ पृ. २६३ Sir W. Russell, the famous correspondent of the London Times remarks :-We wbo suffered from it
