Another account we have from those daye are the memoirs of subedar sitaram pande sitaram pande was recruited in 1821 as a sepoy in the Bengal Native Army he served the English for 48 years and retired in 1860 he helped the British of suppress to rebellion though his own son was a rebel and was killed by the British in front of his eyes on retirement he was persuaded by his commanding officer norgate to write his memoirs he completed the writing in 1861 in awadhi and norgate translated it into English and had it published under the title from sepoy to subedar. Here is an ecerpt from what sitaram pande wrote it is my humble opinion that this seizing of oudh filled theinds of the sepoys with distrust and led them to plot against the goverment agents of the nawab of oudh and also of the king of Delhi were sent all over India to discover the temperature of the army they worked upon the feelings of sepoys telling them how treacherously the foreigners had behaved towards their king.