About George Bruce Malleson
Colonel George Bruce Malleson was an English officer in India and the author of several works on British Indian colonial history. He retired with the rank of colonel in 1877, having been created C.S.I. in the 1872 Birthday Honours. He was a prolific writer, his first work to attract attention being the famous "Red Pamphlet", published at Calcutta in 1857, when the Sepoy Mutiny was at its height.
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