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| | BarbManning.net Freelance - Shaithan's Wind: The 1857 Sepoy Rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) |
 | | George Bruce Malleson, a cadet in the BEIC military service in 1842, and later a correspondent for the London Times, was one of the few historians to advance the theory of a conspiracy behind the war. |
 | | In his book, Malleson identified three individuals he considered chief conspirators: Dhondu Pant, the Maharaja of Bithur; the Maulavi, Ahmadallah of Oudh, a Muslim religious leader; and the Rani of Jhansi, the widow of a small state in Central India. |
 | | Malleson credits him with devising the Chapatti Movement, a scheme centered round the circulation of small, "dirty, little cakes of the coarsest flour about the size and thickness of a biscuit." Indians baked these cakes, six at a time, and distributed them at night to neighboring villages. |
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