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When Dead Bodies Became Entertainment for the British

This is not a horror novel.
This is history.
Our history.
There was a time in India when British soldiers played games with the corpses of Indians they had just killed.
And Gandhi still believed they were “just and civilised.”
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2/ Benares, 1857
The revolt had been crushed- betrayed from within.
What followed was not justice.
It was revenge without limits.
General Neil’s men, English and Sikh troops descended on defenceless farming villages.
3/ Anyone they caught- old, young, farmer, labourer, was killed.
First came the gallows.
Then rows of gallows.
When wood ran out, they used the trees.
Every branch became a noose.
4/ But killing wasn’t enough.
It had to be “interesting.”
Men were tied to branches while standing on elephants.
The elephant moved away.
The body dropped. Image
5/ Bored with the same sight, British officers arranged the corpses into shapes,
Number 8. Number 9.
Death turned into decoration.
This was their idea of civilisation.
6/ Then came a “problem”- rope was running out.

The “solution”?
Burn the villages.
7/ They surrounded homes, set them on fire, and shot anyone who ran out of the flames.

One officer wrote home with pride:

“We burned 20 villages to the ground today.”

Another bragged about the “fun” of watching people burn.
8/ Tell me- does this not sound like genocide?

And yet… Gandhi believed in cooperating with them.
He urged Indians to serve in their wars.
To keep faith in their mercy.
To see their rule as a blessing from God.
9/ How can you call a man Mahatma when he asked to work with those who made death a sport?

History is not just about the past.
The heroes we choose decide the dignity we keep or lose in the future.

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