In my childhood I used to hear stories about the Mutiny (Ghadr) of 1857 from my revered father who had witnessed it as a boy of 13, then living with his parents in Delhi. One day, while narrating the story he said feelingly, 'We were compelled to leave Delhi our paternal home and all our belongings, afraid of the plundering raids of the Telingas and fled to Al war where we found shelter and we did not return until
many years after the fall of Dehli and restoration of
peace’. In this manner was awakened in me some
curiosity about the so-called Ghadr but I had no time
to think seriously of it until the 18th of November 1956
when I wrote an article on ‘Emperor Bahadur Shah II
and his role in the War of 1857' for the Amrita Bazar
Patrika. It is reproduced below together with its
criticism which appeared subsequently in the same
paper.