1857: How The Brits Blew Up Indian Mutineers With Canons!

[zynga]

Boys.. calm down.. do you know that this method was already used by the islmic invaders in india?
besides i think it would be a spectacle where the head would go high in the air and fall.. platch!

 

[Wright]

Not only that, they deliberately annihilated hindu and muslim culture to make what we are today - english speaking slaves, who cant think for themselves and blindly follow western culture.

The Arab invaders did a much better job. Most conflicts in the region are due to muslim - hindu tensions.

 

[cloud_9]

I came across this recently and was outraged by the way the British killed captured Indian 'mutineers' during the 1857 revolt.

This disturbing painting by Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin shows British soldiers executing participants in the Indian Revolt of 1857. Alleged 'rebels' were tied to the muzzles of cannon, which would then be fired.

This brutal method of execution made it nearly impossible for the sepoys' families to perform the proper Hindu or Muslim funeral rites.

Have things changed? I don't think so, what with Western troops seen urinating on dead bodies and other such despicable acts in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

And these guys are the first to point fingers at all and sundry for human rights violations!

According to some people that picture is a depiction of 17th JANUARY 1872 incident that happened at Malerkotla when Namdhari Sikhs were blown off by canons.But Verestchagin actually visited India in 1876-77

Blowing Up Of The Namdhari Sikhs - 17th JANUARY 1872

In the mean time, Mr Cowen, the Deputy Commissioner of Ludhiana district, had reached Malerkotla. On 17th of January, he ordered the Namdhari Sikhs to be blown up by cannons without any investigation or formal trial. Although Mr Forsyth, the Commissioner of Ambala Division had sent a written message to Mr Cowen to await his arrival, yet Mr Cowen did not pay any heed to it and went on with his plan of executing the Namdhari Sikhs.

The Brave Namdhari Sikhs were brought to an open abandoned place now being called Kukian Da Rakar at 4PM on 17 th January, 1872 . Nine cannons were positioned. Seven of these cannons were used to blow up the Namdhari Sikhs and two were kept as reserves.

So it may be some Random execution by Brits but it's definitely not related to Revolt of 1857.

His picture Blowing from Guns in British India depicted executions carried out by tying victims to the barrels of guns. Vereshchagin's detractors argued that such executions had only occurred in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, but the painting depicted modern soldiers of the 1880s, implying that the practice was normal. Because of its photographic style, the painting appeared to present itself as impartial record of a real event. In the Magazine of Art in December 1887, Vereshchagin defended himself, rather evasively, by saying that that if there were another rebellion then the British would use it again.

 

[Jung]

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[Juice]

You are wrong my friend they are responsible for the most of the problems of the world.

Does Israel-Palestine rings any bell they are behind all the mess.

Of course whites are responsible for all the world's problems! If any one suggested non-whites were responsible for anything I would laugh at them. Next you suggest they were capable of self-rule, and able to assume any sort of responsibility for themselves. Ludicrous!

 

[Uchiha]

The Arab invaders did a much better job. Most conflicts in the region are due to muslim - hindu tensions.

trollish invader on pdf do a good job

Of course whites are responsible for all the world's problems! If any one suggested non-whites were responsible for anything I would laugh at them. Next you suggest they were capable of self-rule, and able to assume any sort of responsibility for themselves. Ludicrous!

Here's a great saying:
"White man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes, he killed our creed
He took our game for his own need"

 

[JohnyD]

So, should we ask an apology from an oldie queen Elizabeth? ..Guess no, it was our bad, in fact the people who used to carry out mass massacre were actually Indian national working for British..

For British, they did it to keep their rule, For Indians who worked for British forces; it was their job and source of bread!

So, whom should we blame? We are not Chinese, to open old(ancient) books and decide what is good and bad!

 

[Wright]

trollish invader on pdf do a good job


Here's a great saying:
"White man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes, he killed our creed
He took our game for his own need"

Iron maiden? Anyway, Iranian, Spanish, Indians largely feel the same way about the Arab invaders many of your compatriots consider were heroes. The Turks were a menace to a lot of European empires as well. But the Spanish, Austrians and Russians fought back. Even the Turks came close to being occupied, but they fought. The Mayan empires could not.

Lesson: Nothing is for free for anyone to "take", especially in those days. When there is a war the winner usually takes the land and resources. Today Istabul sits on constantinople like the USSR absorbed East Germany.

 

[notsuperstitious]

This method was a Mughal method of punishing people. The british only carried on with the local traditions.

Atleast this method was quick, much much much worse was practiced over the world.

 

[The_Showstopper]

Britishers are resposible for most of the problems subcontinent is facing right now

We ourselves are to be blamed for our problems. Why do we have this habit of looking out for a scapegoat? We were ruled by Brits because we let them rule us and destroy us...

 

[silver_dragon]

All about sending a message, don't rebel.

You haven't left china too..someday we all will come in the heart of London to show you the message " don't mess with rebellions".
We have it in our hearts. Take china, India, Pakistan, Japan( For Uncle Sam) and the list goes on....

 

[888jamie888]

You haven't left china too..someday we all will come in the heart of London to show you the message " don't mess with rebellions".
We have it in our hearts. Take china, India, Pakistan, Japan( For Uncle Sam) and the list goes on....

Uhuh. Good luck with that.
In the past get over it. I'm not planning on invading Italy because the romans invaded england.

 

[karan21]

You haven't left china too..someday we all will come in the heart of London to show you the message " don't mess with rebellions".
We have it in our hearts. Take china, India, Pakistan, Japan( For Uncle Sam) and the list goes on....

yupp it is in our hearts. But the messages we will send will be different. We will not invade them attack them. We will takeover their companies. We will beat them economically. We will lend them money when they are in crisis. We will flood their unis with indians and chinese and take over top positions(this is already happening at record pace). We will take over their jobs in their countries.

The game has already started. India today lends money to Europe and china is world manufacturer. Time will show these tiny european islands who is the boss. Asian rise is historic. Cant stop it.

 

[Wright]

yupp it is in our hearts. But the messages we will send will be different. We will not invade them attack them. We will takeover their companies. We will beat them economically. We will lend them money when they are in crisis. We will flood their unis with indians and chinese and take over top positions(this is already happening at record pace). We will take over their jobs in their countries.

The game has already started. India today lends money to Europe and china is world manufacturer. Time will show these tiny european islands who is the boss. Asian rise is historic. Cant stop it.

No. There are more people heading to China to get jobs and education. That is what happanes with all nations that experiance growth. Canadian Chinese are returning to China in greater numbers than ever before, as with the south Koreans going back to Korea.
Europe has no jobs to offer and so is not attractive to the Chinese, and other wealthy East Asians.
The growing far right movements in Greece, Russia, Spain, Germany, France makes it all the worse.

India has 6 times less GDP than China. It is far from the power you make it to be. Buying a few dying English companies means zip.

Asia is too broad a term anyway. Too many differnt people and races live on the continent. As with Europe, Asian powers will be competing with one another. We see this in the East Asian neighborhood quite clearly.

 

[Juice]

Uhuh. Good luck with that.
In the past get over it. I'm not planning on invading Italy because the romans invaded england.

Of course, if you're English, your boys weren't there till the Romans left.

You haven't left china too..someday we all will come in the heart of London to show you the message " don't mess with rebellions".
We have it in our hearts. Take china, India, Pakistan, Japan( For Uncle Sam) and the list goes on....

If it weren't for Uncle Sam, the Japs would still be in China (the Chinese resistance to the Japanese was somewhat less than glowingly effective)