India Before and After the Mutiny

"India Before and After the Mutiny is a rare piece of history on the Mutiny 1857 not in the sense that the book is not available in the book market in India, the importance lies elsewhere. The book was first published in 1885 when the dust or fallout of the Mutiny of 1857 was yet to be settled down. Again the book was written by a writer who cannot be called a historian proper. The writer Prafulla Chandra Ray is the pioneer chemical scientist of India who is better known as the father of India\'s chemical research and chemical industry. The book in question was originally written in the form of an essay to be submitted for a prizewinning contest declared by the Rector of Edinburgh University and Prafulla Chandra while preparing himself for his D.Sc from Edinburgh University in England participated in the contest as one of the competitor but failed to win the prize not on merit but for his "Anti-British Diatribes" in the essay as has been pointed out by one of the British Adjudicators of the essay competition. The book is the first attempt by any writer on the subject to judge objectively the events that lead to the Mutiny of 1857."