MUTINY ON THE SUBCONTINENT
I am a regular reader of your magazine, and I must say that many of the articles that you have published are very interesting to me. But the one that I found most interesting recently is the cover feature in issue 48 (November 2017) – Victoria: Rise of an Empress.
You briefly mentioned the so-called Indian Mutiny 1857 in this, which can also be known as ‘The Sepoy Mutiny’. In the article, the author correctly mentions the brutality the soldiers of the East India Company used to crush the rebellion. But what she has not mentioned is that some of the Indian soldiers, who fought in the mutiny against the British soldiers, were sometimes executed in horrific and humiliating manners (for example by being hung from trees) if they were caught. Entire villages and towns were burnt down – completely wiped out.