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Bounty from a mutiny
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The Indian Mutiny, 1857
by Saul David
Penguin/Viking, GBP 20
Review by Roger Hutchinson
One day in the early years of the 20th century, a Catholic priest
in the city of Cawnpore in the north of British India was called out
to give the last rites to an old lady in the local bazaar.
Having expected, we must assume, to minister to some anonymous
elderly Eurasian or native convert, the priest was astonished - more
astonished than it is possible for us to realise - when the occupant
of the death-bed revealed herself to bear the name of Margaret
Wheeler.
What images must have been conjured by ...
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