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Overview: A biographical entry within the definitive reference work of its age, this piece is a masterclass in concise historical portraiture, chronicling the life of a pivotal yet complex figure of the British Raj.
Plot: The narrative traces Edwardes's rise from a young officer to a key administrator during the Sikh Wars and the Indian Rebellion of 1857. It details his celebrated military and diplomatic exploits in the Punjab, his role in the Siege of Delhi, and his subsequent governance, framing him as a paragon of Victorian "muscular Christianity" and imperial duty.
Analysis: Its status as a classic lies not in narrative flair, but in its encapsulation of a worldview. The entry is a primary source artifact, presenting the 19th-century British imperial self-image—the civilizing mission, the "great man" theory of history—with unselfconscious authority. Reading it today offers a dual analysis: of the man, Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, and of the Encyclopaedia itself as a monument to the confidence and certainties of a bygone era, making it indispensable for understanding the historiography of empire.
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