"If we now take a retrospective view of the various circumstances which we have been able to elicit during our extended inquiries, we shall perceive how exclusively Mahommedan are all the prominent points that attach to it. A Mahommedan priest, with pretended visions, and assumed miraculous powersâa Mahommedan King, his dupe and his accompliceâa Mahommedan clandestine embassy to the Mahommedan powers of Persia and Turkey resultingâ Mahommedan prophecies as to the downfall of our powerâ Mahommedan rule as the successor of our ownâthe most cold blooded murders by Mahommedan assasinsâa religious war for Mahommedan ascendancyâa Mahommedan press unscrupulously abettingâand Mahommedan sepoys initiating the mutiny. Hinduism, I may say, is nowhere either reflected or represented; if it be brought forward at all, it is only in subservience to its ever-aggressive neighbour."
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