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Part 1—The Demon of Cawnpore-6
The governor, now called Viceroy, a Secretary of State, and fifteen members, composed the supreme government. The governors of the presidencies of Madras and Bombay were henceforward to be nominated by the queen; the members of the Indian service and the commanders-in-chief to be chosen by the Secretary of State. Such were the principal arrangements of the new government. As to the military force, the English army contained seventeen thousand more men than before the sepoy mutiny. The army in 1867 numbered 64,902 European officers and men, and 125,246 native. Such was the actual state of the peninsula from an administrative and military point of view; such the effective force which guarded a territory of 400,000 square miles. “The English,” says M. Grandidier, “have been fortunate in fin
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