Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 CHAPĀTĪS
- 2 GREASED CARTRIDGES
- 3 THE PRESIDENCY DIVISION, FEBRUARY TO MAY
- 4 REGIMENTS AND OFFICERS AT MEERUT
- 5 MEERUT CANTONMENT IN 1857
- 6 THE FIRING PARADE OF 24 APRIL AND ITS SEQUEL
- 7 THE OUTBREAK: (a) The Native Infantry Lines
- 8 THE OUTBREAK: (b) The Native Cavalry Lines
- 9 THE OUTBREAK: (c) The Bazar Mobs
- 10 THE OUTBREAK: (d) The European Troop Movements and the European Lines
- 11 THE HANDLING OF THE EUROPEAN TROOPS
- 12 TO DELHI
- 13 CONCLUSIONS
- Notes and References
- Index
- Plan of Meerut Cantonment in 1857
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 CHAPĀTĪS
- 2 GREASED CARTRIDGES
- 3 THE PRESIDENCY DIVISION, FEBRUARY TO MAY
- 4 REGIMENTS AND OFFICERS AT MEERUT
- 5 MEERUT CANTONMENT IN 1857
- 6 THE FIRING PARADE OF 24 APRIL AND ITS SEQUEL
- 7 THE OUTBREAK: (a) The Native Infantry Lines
- 8 THE OUTBREAK: (b) The Native Cavalry Lines
- 9 THE OUTBREAK: (c) The Bazar Mobs
- 10 THE OUTBREAK: (d) The European Troop Movements and the European Lines
- 11 THE HANDLING OF THE EUROPEAN TROOPS
- 12 TO DELHI
- 13 CONCLUSIONS
- Notes and References
- Index
- Plan of Meerut Cantonment in 1857
Summary
George Harvey, B.C.S., Commissioner of the Agra Division, writes:
In the commencement of 1857 while marching through the Mynpoorie district, my attention was drawn by Zumindars in villages adjoining the road to a mysterious distribution of chuppattees, (or small wheaten cakes), with astonishing rapidity through the country. The bearers knew apparently no more than those from whom they last received the cakes what the purport of the injunction was which directed the preparation of five cakes to be carried on to the villages in advance.‘They would be called for’, it was stated, and in this way chuppattees or their counterparts travelled often over 160 or 200 miles in a night. Those I saw had been delivered on the Etawah side of Mynpoorie: yet on the following day I heard of them at the extremity of Etah and Allyghur.… The course taken suggested a probable starting point in Bundelkund or Nagpoor.
The chapātīs are reported in the Muttra District, in the Meerut Division, in Gurgaon and the neighbourhood of Delhi, and are said to have reached the borders of the Punjab: north of the Ganges, they appeared in Rohilkhand and in Oudh. In the whole area, they seem to have travelled from south-east to north-west, or perhaps from east to west, moving as Harvey describes up the Doab, crossing the Jumna into the Delhi territory, entering the Badaon District in Rohilkhand from the Shahjahanpur District to the east.
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- The Mutiny Outbreak at Meerut in 1857 , pp. 1 - 7Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1966