This real-life tale, written by the Australian journalist William Henry Fitchett, enlightens readers with the historic Barrackpore mutiny, a rising of native Indian sepoys against their British officers in November 1824. The incident occurred when the British East India Company was fighting the First Anglo-Burmese War and had its roots in British insensitivity towards Indian cultural sentiments, combined with negligence and poor supply arrangements, which caused growing resentment amongst the sepoys of several regiments of the Bengal Native Infantry after a long march from Mathura to Barrackpore.
