bholat

Updated: June 14, 2025

There were other factions that maintained that General Baines was strong enough, with his three thousand, to hold Bholat, unless the men of Jailpore marched, to join hands with the Bholatis who were surely in revolt by this time.

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East

Hindus have as stubborn and unalterable a habit of obeying and believing their priests when the fancy suits them as white men of other religions have. If the fakir had told them through the doorway of the hut that he intended going with the white men in the direction of Bholat, they would most surely have prevented him. But it suited them very well indeed to have the white men killed elsewhere.

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East

They shouted, but no sound could pierce the walls or escape through that tremendous door. Even the sound of firing merely echoed upward until it reached the dome, and then filtered out and upward through the opening above. They might as well have shouted to their friends in Bholat! For ten minutes, perhaps, the battle surged and swayed on the stone floor first one side rushing, then the other.

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East