1857 Quotes

“Rather than implore a tear of the world,
Alive, I'd invite the crows
To bleed my tainted carcass.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“By the time the news reached Calcutta, it had already given hope and encouragement to the many opponents of Company rule across the length and breadth of Hindustan: it was no accident that when the Great Rebellion did break out in 1857, it did so in sepoy regiments which had been deserted by their British officers in the snows of the Khord Kabul, and in civilian centres such as Lucknow, Agra, and Kanpur where the Persian presses had eagerly reprinted the Afghan epic poems and prose accounts of the British defeat.”
― William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan