Thread by @TrueIndology

1.Fake

The wire historian @iamrana posts a picture of a man tied to a British cannon and claims he is a Muslim "freedom fighter" Maulavi Muhammad Baqar.

The article even claims that description of the painting reads "Baqar tied to a cannon". Is is true?

thewire.in/history/forgot…

2. Here are some facts:

1)This painting was painted in 1890, NOT 1884
2)The name of the painting is NOT "suppression of Indian revolt".
3) The description of painting reads "blowing from guns in British India". There is no mention of any Maulvi or 1857

loc.gov/resource/cph.3…

3. Maulvi Baqar was a spy and not a "freedom fighter" as the article claims. And British did NOT tie him to a cannon and blow him up. There is no record that British tied people to cannons in 1857. No mention of 1857 in the painting or the description
loc.gov/resource/cph.3…

4. No record of British tying people to cannons in 1857.The British uniform of this painting is post 1857. The man in the painting wears a white turban and sports a beard. He is almost certainly a Namdhari Sikh. There is a record of British tying Namdhari Sikhs to cannons in 1872

5. It is believed that Mangal Gadiya and Hussain were tied to cannon in 1857(there is no primary evidence to sustain this claim). Baqar the British spy was hanged and not tied to a cannon.The article claims there is no evidence that Baqar was a spy. Read his own secret letter.

6. This is Baqar's first secret letter to the British written in July 1857 . He continued as a spy and informed everything happening in Delhi to the British. His letters are still in Delhi commissioner office. Published in Mutiny Papers, File no. 5028

7. A fake picture, a fake attribution and a British spy. Voila! The secular gang has found a new freedom fighter and a hero