The Sepoy Rebellion of 1857: The History and Legacy of the Indian Rebellion against the British East India Company by Charles River Editors

Author:Charles River Editors
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Published: 2017-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Indeed, Dalrymple calls the British officer class “increasingly distant, rude, and dismissive” in comparison to the past. As one officer reported, he “never knew what to say” to the sepoys under his charge. This was a loss felt distinctly by the older Sepoys, who remembered “the sahibs always knew what to say, and how to say it, when I was a young soldier.”[78]

Whatever the speculation of Pandey’s motives, the only record of Pandey’s actual words on the matter were recorded at his court martial, where he explained he had acted “of my own free will.” He also said he “expected to die” and that he “had intended to take” his own life, as well as an admission of “taking bhang and opium of late, but formerly never touched any drugs. I was not aware of what I was doing.”[79]

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