Who was the Correspondent of the Newspaper 'Times' published from London in 1857 wrote that "Nobody in the North India looks at white man's car with friendly view"?

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Correct — A, W. H. Russell. William Howard Russell, the London 'Times' war correspondent, covered the 1857 revolt and its aftermath and recorded it in 'My Diary in India'. He wrote of the deep hostility towards the British across North India at the time.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Robert Peel was a British Prime Minister/statesman, not the Times correspondent in India.  (c) Gladstone (printed 'Gladoston') was a British Prime Minister, not a war correspondent reporting from India.  (d) Lord Palmerston was the British Prime Minister during 1857, not a newspaper correspondent.

Concept: W. H. Russell pioneered modern war reporting (first for the Crimean War, then India). His eyewitness dispatches to the 'Times' and his 'My Diary in India' are valuable contemporary sources on the mood of North India during and after 1857.

State PCS 2020 Q52 — History PYQ with Answer

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