Read the passage and answer the question :

"The sepoys began their action with a signal: firing of the evening gun or sounding of the bugle. They attacked Government buildings. Everything and everybody connected with white man became a target. The British had no answer to the actions of the rebels. British rule, as one British officer noted "collapsed like a house made of cards"."

Who wrote earliest histories of the uprising and noted regular occurrence of nightly Panchayats in Kanpur sepoy lines :

Charles Ball

The correct answer is Option (1) → Charles Ball

Captain Hearsey of the Awadh Military Police had been given protection by his Indian subordinates during the mutiny. The 41st Native Infantry, which was stationed in the same place, insisted that since they had killed all their white officers, the Military Police should also kill Hearsey or deliver him as prisoner to the 41st. The Military Police refused to do either, and it was decided that the matter would be settled by a panchayat composed of native officers drawn from each regiment. Charles Ball, who wrote one of the earliest histories of the uprising, noted that panchayats were a nightly occurrence in the Kanpur sepoy lines. What this suggests is that some of the decisions were taken collectively. Given the fact that the sepoys lived in lines and shared a common lifestyle and that many of them came from the same caste, it is not difficult to imagine them sitting together to decide their own future. The sepoys were the makers of their own rebellion.