A view of India published just after the start of the Mutiny

Mackenzie, Mrs Colin: Six Years in India. DELHI: The City of the Great Mogul. With an Account of the Various Tribes in Hindostan; Hindoos, Sikhs, Affghans, ETC. A New Edition of “The Mission, The Camp, and The Zenana. Richard Bentley [London] 1857. 1st edition 8vo.

xvi, 288pp. Contemporary or later 19th century half leather gilt with marbled paper covered boards, a very good, clean copy externally and internally. The preface to this new edition has a simplistic view of the causes of the Mutiny, which had begun in the spring of 1857. The editor suggests The chief causes of the Mutiny are the dissatisfaction of the Mohammadans at being deprived of their suoremacy, and dthe intrigues of the deposed Princes…. It is a Hindu pretext, but a Mohammadan  motive.  oct6/2