White Mutiny:

ALTHOUGH the events narrated in this book are to a large extent forgotten, they were the subject of hitter controversy when they happened and they involved an issue of first-class importance. The issue between the Government of Sir George Barlow and the European officers of the Madras Army was essentially a simple one. It "wits the question whether the authority of the civil government was to be supreme and its orders to hold good until reversed on appeal or whether the civil government was to be liable to be over~ridden and overthrown by military force. It might be supposed that to that question there could be but one answer, but in a country so remote as India then was, and in the midst of a newly founded empire of White mutiny, the decision was by no means secure. Sir George Barlow’s firm and determined handling of the crisis averted a very real danger of a military pronunciation.