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DUNLOP, Robert Henry Wallace.
Service and Adventure with the Khakee Ressalah; or Meerut Volunteer Horse, During the mutinies of 1857-1858.

The personal memoirs of an officer who served throughout the Mutiny in the Meerut District, taken from his notes and personal letters. Gives an excellent picture of the Civil Rebellion and the effective actions of a few brave Englishmen in its midst.

Published
London: Richard Bentley, 1858.
Plates
3
Binding/Size
S=8vo
Value
0-5000
Published
London: Richard Bentley, 1858.
Ref
997

Coloured lithographed frontispiece and two plates finished by hand, five black and white plates, some illustrations in the text, 32 pages publisher's advertisements at the backdated July 1858, 8vo: FIRST EDITION. Half burgundy morocco with marbled boards, title in gilt to spine and with blind raised bands and repeat motif and rule in gilt. Some marginal wear and soiling of leaves, light browning, else excellent. Hibbert, Christopher “The Great Mutiny India 1857” cites this work. During the mutinies, Dunlop was the Magistrate at Meerut and had retained notes and drafts of his letters to write this work. The Appendix lists the Corps that mutinied or were disarmed. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. A Volunteer Trooper of the Meerut Khakee Ressalah. 2. A Goorka Soldier / A Sikh Servant of Rajah Lal Sing. 3. A Sikh Recruit / A Mussulman Sowar.