Instigated by princes equally ambitious and less sagacious and more unscrupulous than he was, the people of India were persuaded that they might successfully rise against their English rulers, who had brought them out of a state of anarchy and constant warfare and misery, and had established peace and prosperity in their country.
Recorrió no sólo las comarcas aún independientes de la península india, sino también las regiones directamente sometidas a la administración inglesa.