The Santal Insurrection of 1855-57

I take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude and thankfulness to those who have helped me in the preparation of this work. I am greatly indebted to the Government of Bihar, to the Commissioner of the Bhagalpur Division, and to the Deputy Commissioner of the Santal Paraganas, for kindly permitting me to utilise their unpublished records. I am thankful to the Librarian of the Imperial Library, Calcutta, for his issuing to me on loan copies of 'The Friend of India' and 'The Calcutta Review.' I express with thanks my obligation to Mr. G. E. Fawcus, M.A., I.E.S., C.I.E., O.B.E., Chairman, Joint Public Service Commission, Ranchi, to Dr. H. Lambert, MA., Ph.D., I.E.S., ex-Principal, Patna College, to Mr. J. S. Armour, M.A., I.E.S., Director of Public Instruction, Bihar, to Dr. S. C. Sarkar, M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon.), Head of the Department of History, Patna College, and to my revered Professors of Calcutta University, Dr. S. N. Sen, B.Litt. (Oxon ), M.A., Ph.D. (now Keeper of Records of the Government of India), Dr. Hemchandra Raychaudhuri, M.A., Ph.D., Dr. N. C. Banerjee, M.A, Ph.D., and Srijut Tripurari Chakravarty, M.A., for help and encouragement that they have all along extended to me in my humble literary pursuits. I owe a heavy debt of gratitude to the authorities of my Alma Mater, the University of Calcutta, for having so kindly published this book, as also two-others, in their press. My friends Babu Hemendranath Chakravarty of Fakur, Babu Gourihar Mitra, B.L , of Suri, and Babu Radha-gobinda Ruj of Panchkethia, deserve my hearty thanks for supplying me with the records No. 3, No. 4 and No. 6 respectively. My friend and pupil, Babu Hariranjan Ghoshal M.A, B.L., Research Scholar in History, Patna College, has kindly helped me in preparing the index, for which I thank him cordially.