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In the month of October 1832 the existence of a plot to mutiny and murder all the European officers and soldiers in [[Bangalore]] was discovered. The destruction of the 13th Light Dragoons formed part of the conspiracy. The mutiny was timed to break out at midnight on the 28th of October. Up to the morning of that day no suspicion even was entertained by either European officers, soldiers, or officials.
The mutineers were Muslims, and if the outbreak at [[Bangalore]] had proved successful, it was to be followed by similar outbreaks at [[Bellary]], [[Jaulna]], [[Hyderabad]] and [[Nagpore]]. Doubtless, too, it would have spread far and wide '''[http://www.rmt-mmo.com/rmt/47_Dragonica.html ドラゴニカ rmt]'''.
To Major Inglis, commanding the [[48th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry ]], however, on the morning of October 28th came [[Jemadar]] Emaun Khan, a native officer of his regiment, and to the astonishment of his commanding officer revealed the whole plot. Prompt measures were at once taken, the European regiments then at [[Bangalore]], the [[62nd Regiment of Foot]] and the 13th Light Dragoons, were immediately warned. Parties were sent out, and all those named by the Jemadar were immediately arrested. The ringleader was a certain Hyder Ali Khan, who liked to be styled the "Nawaub", and who lived in the Pettah (walled part of a city) of Bangalore. With him were associated Syfut Ali Shah, a fakir who pretended to be an alchemist, and who promised those who joined the conspirators pecuniary rewards in this world and rewards of another, but equally satisfactory, nature in the next. A Muslim butter-merchant was also deeply implicated.
