Auckland’s manifesto was more or less pure propaganda—a deliberate and blatant inversion of the available intelligence—and was recognised at once by the Indian press as “a most disingenuous distortion of the truth.”134 One Indian civil servant pointed out that the manifesto used “the words ‘justice’ and ‘necessity,’ and the terms ‘frontier,’ ‘security of the possessions of the British Crown’ and ‘national defence’ in a manner for which fortunately no precedent existed in the English language.”
