The sepoy councils resemble those juntas of young officers who seize power in modern states

The sepoy councils resemble those juntas of young officers who seize power in modern states. This is what national revolt often looks like. Just because the uprising is led by soldiers rather than by progressive intellectuals lately returned from the LSE or the London Inns of count, it does not mean that it does not have the seeds of modernity in it. It certainly cannot  be written off as a cry of rage against the modern world

F. Mount, The tears of the Rajas (2015), 581

He believed in 'socialism in one country', as long as it wasn't his own

Charles was a whiggish improving sort, who yearned to expropriate the landlords in favour of the true proprietors, the peasants who actually tilled the soil. Like many other modernizers, and there were plenty of them in India in the 1980s and 1840s, he would not have dreamed of applying these radical nostrums to England. He believed  in 'socialism in one country', as long as it wasn't his own.

F. Mount, The tears of the Rajas (2015), 398