INDIAN REMINISCENCES. BY COLONEL S. DEWÉ WHITE, LATE BENGAL STAFF CORPS. BIBLIOTHE DEG 80 GODLEIAN LONDON: WM H. ALLEN & CO., 13, WATERLOO PLACE, S.W. PUBLISHERS TO THE INDIA OFFICE. PREFACE. I MAY inform any wishing to know why my "Indian Reminiscences" has been so long in making its appearance, that, considering my position, it would have been unadvisable for me to have had such a book published during the time of my service in India. Moreover, I could not have composed my narrative of the great Sepoy Revolt immediately after that event so dispassionately and advantageously as I have now done. And in the next place, after my final departure from India, I was engaged in writing two works, the first volume of the most important of which-my History of the Reign of Charles I., the Commonwealth, and Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell-will, I trust, ere long be sent to the Press. I now hopefully await the verdict of public opinion on this my first literary production, and I shall be exceedingly glad if, in addition to affording interest to the reader, it turns out a useful and profitable book in a religious point of view. S. DEWE WHITE. SOUTHSEA, 23rd March, 1880. |