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A t the time of making over the charge of the Government of India on the 29th February, 1856, Lord Dalhousie was so proud of the success of his administration and confident in the peace of the country that he left on record his opinion with full assurance of progressive prosperity without the least apprehension of a disturbance; yet words indicating what was to happen, had inadvertently dropped from his lips that, “ cruel violence might be suddenly committed by men who, up to the last moment, had been regarded as harmless, even by those who knew them best."