03-08-2009, 12:07 PM
<b><i>5.10 The christian genocide after the War of Independence ('Sepoy Mutiny')</i></b>
While Will Durant's source (the London Spectator) estimated that the christian British took "<i>at least</i> 100,000 lives in the mutiny", it's not clear what that 'at least' entails, nor whether it was over and done with at that point.
One writer has estimated that the toll could be as high as 10 million, since the sadistic christian revenge on Indians for standing up to the foreign genocidal maniacs did not look to have stopped with the immediate reprisals:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,...24,00.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>1857 mutiny revisited</b>
Friday August 24, 2007, The Guardian
<b>India's secret history: 'A holocaust, one where millions disappeared...'
Author says British reprisals involved the killing of 10m, spread over 10 years</b>
Conventional histories have counted only 100,000 Indian soldiers who were slaughtered in savage reprisals, but none have tallied the number of rebels and civilians killed by British forces desperate to impose order, claims Misra.
...
"It was a holocaust, one where millions disappeared. It was a necessary holocaust in the British view because they thought the only way to win was to destroy entire populations in towns and villages. It was simple and brutal. Indians who stood in their way were killed. But its scale has been kept a secret," Misra told the Guardian.
His calculations rest on three principal sources. Two are records pertaining to the number of religious resistance fighters killed - either Islamic mujahideen or Hindu warrior ascetics committed to driving out the British.
The third source involves British labour force records, which show a drop in manpower of between a fifth and a third across vast swaths of India, which as one British official records was "on account of the undisputed display of British power, necessary during those terrible and wretched days - millions of wretches seemed to have died."
There is a macabre undercurrent in much of the correspondence. In one incident Misra recounts how 2m letters lay unopened in government warehouses, which, according to civil servants, showed "the kind of vengeance our boys must have wreaked on the abject Hindoos and Mohammadens, who killed our women and children."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
While Will Durant's source (the London Spectator) estimated that the christian British took "<i>at least</i> 100,000 lives in the mutiny", it's not clear what that 'at least' entails, nor whether it was over and done with at that point.
One writer has estimated that the toll could be as high as 10 million, since the sadistic christian revenge on Indians for standing up to the foreign genocidal maniacs did not look to have stopped with the immediate reprisals:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,...24,00.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>1857 mutiny revisited</b>
Friday August 24, 2007, The Guardian
<b>India's secret history: 'A holocaust, one where millions disappeared...'
Author says British reprisals involved the killing of 10m, spread over 10 years</b>
Conventional histories have counted only 100,000 Indian soldiers who were slaughtered in savage reprisals, but none have tallied the number of rebels and civilians killed by British forces desperate to impose order, claims Misra.
...
"It was a holocaust, one where millions disappeared. It was a necessary holocaust in the British view because they thought the only way to win was to destroy entire populations in towns and villages. It was simple and brutal. Indians who stood in their way were killed. But its scale has been kept a secret," Misra told the Guardian.
His calculations rest on three principal sources. Two are records pertaining to the number of religious resistance fighters killed - either Islamic mujahideen or Hindu warrior ascetics committed to driving out the British.
The third source involves British labour force records, which show a drop in manpower of between a fifth and a third across vast swaths of India, which as one British official records was "on account of the undisputed display of British power, necessary during those terrible and wretched days - millions of wretches seemed to have died."
There is a macabre undercurrent in much of the correspondence. In one incident Misra recounts how 2m letters lay unopened in government warehouses, which, according to civil servants, showed "the kind of vengeance our boys must have wreaked on the abject Hindoos and Mohammadens, who killed our women and children."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Death to traitors.