The Sepoy Mutiny Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

I want to dust the old and pale files and the flaps
Of the British period police stations
To write my thesis
On the Indian war of independence
Or the sepoy mutiny,
The mustache-twirling Indian sepoys
Revolting against,
Gone berserk
Or inspired by the idea of nationalism
Backfiring the British?

The files of the British officers on the horse-backs
Or in police jeeps later on,
Searching the nationalists not,
But the Gandhian freedom fighters
And the Tommy too were reined in
At a later stage
To search the Indian villages ruthlessly
And the commonly people running for cover,
Fleeing the villages.