{"product_id":"2940012898241","title":"THE RED YEAR","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER I                                            PAGE\u003cbr\u003e THE MESHES OF THE NET                                  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER II\u003cbr\u003e A NIGHT IN MAY                                        19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER III\u003cbr\u003e HOW BAHADUR SHAH PROCLAIMED HIS EMPIRE                39\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER IV\u003cbr\u003e ON THE WAY TO CAWNPORE                                54\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER V\u003cbr\u003e A WOMAN INTERVENES                                    72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER VI\u003cbr\u003e THE WELL                                              91\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER VII\u003cbr\u003e TO LUCKNOW                                           110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER VIII\u003cbr\u003e WHEREIN A MOHAMMEDAN FRATERNIZES WITH A BRAHMIN      131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER IX\u003cbr\u003e A LONG CHASE                                         151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER X\u003cbr\u003e WHEREIN FATE PLAYS TRICKS WITH MALCOLM               169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER XI\u003cbr\u003e A DAY'S ADVENTURES                                   190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER XII\u003cbr\u003e THE SWING OF THE PENDULUM                            210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER XIII\u003cbr\u003e THE MEN WHO WORE SKIRTS                              227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER XIV\u003cbr\u003e WHY MALCOLM DID NOT WRITE                            247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER XV\u003cbr\u003e AT THE KING'S COURT                                  268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER XVI\u003cbr\u003e IN THE VORTEX                                        290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER XVII\u003cbr\u003e THE EXPIATION                                        309\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The Red Year_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MESHES OF THE NET\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a day in January, 1857, a sepoy was sitting by a well in the\u003cbr\u003ecantonment of Dum-Dum, near Calcutta. Though he wore the uniform of John\u003cbr\u003eCompany, and his rank was the lowest in the native army, he carried on\u003cbr\u003ehis forehead the caste-marks of the Brahmin. In a word, he was more than\u003cbr\u003enoble, being of sacred birth, and the Hindu officers of his regiment, if\u003cbr\u003ethey were not heaven-born Brahmins, would grovel before him in secret,\u003cbr\u003ethough he must obey their slightest order on parade or in the field.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo him approached a Lascar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brother,\" said the newcomer, \"lend me your brass pot, so that I may\u003cbr\u003edrink, for I have walked far in the sun.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sepoy started as though a snake had stung him. Lascars, the\u003cbr\u003esailor-men of India, were notoriously free-and-easy in their manners.\u003cbr\u003eYet how came it that even a low-caste mongrel of a Lascar should offer\u003cbr\u003esuch an overt insult to a Brahmin!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Do you not know, swine-begotten, that your hog's lips would contaminate\u003cbr\u003emy lotah?\" asked he, putting the scorn of centuries into the words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Contaminate!\" grinned the Lascar, neither frightened nor angered. \"By\u003cbr\u003eholy Ganga, it is your lips that are contaminated, not mine. Are not the\u003cbr\u003eGovernment greasing your cartridges with cow's fat? And can you load\u003cbr\u003eyour rifle without biting the forbidden thing? Learn more about your own\u003cbr\u003ecaste, brother, before you talk so proudly to others.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot a great matter, this squabble between a sepoy and a Lascar, yet it\u003cbr\u003elit such a flame in India that rivers of blood must be shed ere it was\u003cbr\u003equenched. The Brahmin's mind reeled under the shock of the retort. It\u003cbr\u003ewas true, then, what the agents of the dethroned King of Oudh were\u003cbr\u003esaying in the bazaar. The Government were bent on the destruction of\u003cbr\u003eBrahminical supremacy. He and his caste-fellows would lose all that made\u003cbr\u003elife worth living. But they would exact a bitter price for their fall\u003cbr\u003efrom high estate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kill!\" he murmured in his frenzy, as he rushed away to tell his\u003cbr\u003ecomrades the lie that made the Indian Mutiny possible. \"Slay and spare\u003cbr\u003enot! Let us avenge our wrongs so fully that no accursed Feringhi shall\u003cbr\u003edare again to come hither across the Black Water!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe lie and the message flew through India with the inconceivable speed\u003cbr\u003ewith which such ill tidings always travels in that country. Ever north\u003cbr\u003ewent the news that the British Raj was doomed. Hindu fakirs, aglow with\u003cbr\u003ereligious zeal, Mussalman zealots, as eager for dominance in this world\u003cbr\u003eas for a houri-tenanted Paradise in the next, carried the fiery torch of\u003cbr\u003erebellion far and wide. And so the flame spread, and was fanned to red\u003cbr\u003efury, though the eyes of few Englishmen could see it, while native\u003cbr\u003eintelligence was aghast at the supineness of their over-lords.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne evening in the month of April, a slim, straight-backed girl stood in\u003cbr\u003ethe veranda of a bungalow at Meerut. Her slender figure, garbed in white\u003cbr\u003emuslin, was framed in a creeper-covered arch.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079198982384,"sku":"2940012898241","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012898241_p0.jpg?v=1763585232","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012898241","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}