From Major H. W. Mathews concerning an Indian doctor's disturbing statement, 12 February 1857

STATEMENT sent by Major H.W. Matthews, Commanding the 43rd Regiment, Native Infantry,--dated 12th February 1857.

Ramjan Khan, Native Doctor, states as follows:-- “I overheard a sepoy of the 2nd regiment, native (Grenadier) Infantry, mention at the hospital to some one that a kossid had been sent to the Ung-ka-pultan* at Berhampore and to the regiments at Dinapore, informing them that ten or twelve of us have raised a disturbance, and we want you to support us.

Ramjan said he did not remember the date that he heard the above, but it was some days ago. I told him to try and find out the sepoy’s name and company whose conversation he had overheard.

*The 19th Bengal Native Infantry.

From: Selections from the Letters Despatches and other State Papers preserved in the Military Department of the Government of India, 1857-58.  Edited by George W. Forrest.  Calcutta: Military Department Press 1893, 29-30.