| John Tulloch Nash

“ If I could peer into the dim and distant future, and venture to prophesy, I would venture to foretell that, in after ages, when glorious India, in her regeneration, and under happier auspices, has grown up to maturity, and risen to the zenith of her destiny in becoming one of the grandest empires on earth, her posterity, instructed by Hindu tradition, will learn that the annexation policy of the East India Company originated the Mutiny, and that that policy was also instrumental in leading the Usurpers of Kingdoms into the realms of oblivion for ever. ”

“ And the history of this dishonourable dethronement has not only passed into the traditional history of Hindustan, but also into that of the Mahomedan nations of Asia — where, we may rest assured, it will never be forgotten to be handed down hereafter, from generation to generation. ”

“ Now, notwithstanding the king being a Mahomedan — and Mahomedans and Hindūs are very seldom amicably disposed to one another — on a mandate from him, Mān Singh with tens of thousands of his armed Rajput tribe — born warriors, and although entirely abstaining from animal food, physically a splendid race of men, with handsome countenances, averaging about six feet high, amazingly strong, and withal remarkably athletic — would have risen as one man, and, with the aid of the king’s trained troops, swept the invaders through rivers of blood out of the kingdom. ”