 A few months later he went to India and was successful as a barrister, taking on high-profile clients such as the Rani of Jhansi in her battles against the British East India Company.Lang became a journalist and in 1845 established a paper, the "Mofussilite", at Meerut.He also wrote some novels which appeared serially in the "Mofussilite" and in "Fraser's Magazine".