Great Regulars: Martin Tupper was a popular poet

of the time who brought out the atrocities of the 'Mutiny' in a graphic manner through his fiery poems. A contemporary critic commented 'More than anyone else, Martin Tupper succeeded in creating a ferment of indignation and thus played a major part in shaping the public's response'. His poems, filled with clarion calls for the razing of Delhi and the erection of 'groves of gibbets' were telling: Here is a sample of his rousing and roaring British Imperial anti-Indian verse:

And England, now avenge their wrongs by vengeance deep and dire, Cut out their canker with the sword, and burn it out with fire,Destroy those traitor regions, hang every pariah hound,And hunt them down to death, in all hills and cities 'round.'

from V Sundaram: Ennapadam Panchajanya: British Colonial Prejudiced Press Coverage of the First War of Indian Independence of 1857

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