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[–]sco_black_scorpion 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
Sadistic punishment. Actually this doesn't seem like punishment but more like a sadistic experiment. They are using Indian soldiers to kill Indians.
[–]El_Impresionante 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
I remember reading about this. When they fired the cannon, the pressure or the force of the blast would cause the head to detach and fly up in the air for about 30-40 feet before coming down.
Also, not sure if this is a photograph. There is a painting exactly similar to this. It could be a greyscale version of it.
[–]serialposter 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
Nice break from all the wonderful photos on the front page.
[–]bengaliguy 6 points7 points8 points  (14 children)
still people berate me when i express glee at the prospect of crumbling british economy.
imo british people are were the most savage race in this planet.
Edit : past tense
[–]sjdr92 6 points7 points8 points  (7 children)
Brit here, happened to stumble across this. I won't defend the British empire, because they dont deserve it but saying Brits are the most savage race on the planet? Come on.
[–]bengaliguy 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
Edited tense. brits might have changed for the good now, but their montrosity about 60 years ago was unparalleled. btw i dont have anything against you mate, chill! :)
[–]Paranoid__Android 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
May be if you read about how they treated such LARGE numbers of people, your feelings about them would be mixed. What is a savage race, in the first place? Colonialism in general was the worst period of ruthless, cruel domination in the history of the world. It was, to put simply, murder and theft at an unprecedented scale. Unlike the Nazi Germany, this was not led by some small set of people - it was led by a genuine belief on the part of colonizing powers (English, Spanish, Japanese etc) that they were superior to other people as human beings. This led them to not feel any compassion towards who they were ruling.
The problem with people who do not believe in the "what goes around comes around" is that they are blind-sighted by the backlash and can never understand the anger towards them. I, even as an educated Indian, carry an unreasonable amount of anger towards England in general, and the ruling class there in particular.
[–]Kulchamaster16lpm 0 points1 point2 points  (4 children)
Yep, that honor goes to ze germans. Auschwitz bears testimony to that.
[–]bengaliguy 2 points3 points4 points  (2 children)
ofcourse they were, but those brits were not far behind. technically if you calculate the sheer number of people affected by their whims & wishes, it will even surpass Auschwitz. manufacturing a whole famine? treating natives like vermins? guilty of the biggest mass shooting in this history? taking slavery to epic proportions? those people were some other level twisted fucks
[–]Kulchamaster16lpm -1 points0 points1 point  (1 child)
It took a war to get the Germans to fuck off. Millions died and there is no comparison to our fight for freedom which was non violent and relatively calm. Sure we had massacres but none can hold a candle to the atrocities and genocide committed by the Germans.
[–]bengaliguy 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
there is no comparison to our fight for freedom which was non violent and relatively calm
dude really? go brush up your history books. you think only germans committed genocide? lookup Bengal Famine, 3 million people died due to artificial control of the market. and was our freedom fight really calm? ask INA, ask all those who gave their life, ask the victims of Jallianwallah Bagh. Only that we aren't in "First World" euro zone doesn't mean you can belittle the pain we faced back then.
[–]sjdr92 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
This is just recent(ish) history though.
[–]kaylossusus 0 points1 point2 points  (1 child)
I think it's downright immoral to hold people accountable to crimes their ancestors committed. If we do, none of us are innocent.
[–]bengaliguy 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
i'm not holding the current brits accountable. if i did, i would have instead shouted on top of my lungs how they should pay us reparations in billions of pounds for the atrocities of their parents / grandparents. our race is historically a peaceful one, and by generations people from other places has fucked us up, plundered our resources, yet still we didn't do a thing.
my point is, people forget everything very easily.
[–]PM_ME_UR_LUCID_DREAM -2 points-1 points0 points  (2 children)
I don't see any British people in that picture. Indians are manning the cannons as well.
[–]AufschneiderJharkhand 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
Those are British Officers.
Indian Sepoys in EIC Army didn't have privileges to wear the officers uniform.
[–]bengaliguy 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
dont be this naive, they are being ordered by their masters
[–]amateurdevIndia -2 points-1 points0 points  (0 children)
I think japaanis are the real savages.
[–]HeadToToes 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Cannon?
What the fuck?
[–]zutron 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
This portrait currently resides in the US Library of Congress and depicts the aftermath of the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion. The truth is a little more complex than what the picture shows. I quote some relevant passages:
The massacres at Meerut and Delhi provoked a strong British response. In mid-August, British forces, reinforced by Gurkhas from Nepal and the Queen's regiments fresh from the Crimean War, began a bloody campaign to re-establish British rule in India.
The British are widely said to have seen themselves as dispensers of divine justice, and, given the initial atrocities committed by the mutineers, to have viewed their cruelties as simply repayment in kind. As myths of the mutiny grew, every dead British child became a slaughtered angel, every woman a violated innocent, every sepoy a black-faced, blood-crazed savage. There was little room for mercy in the hearts of the British troops and those, such as Governor Lord Canning, who spoke of restraint were derided by their countrymen. Canning became known contemptuously as "Clemency Canning."
After the British recovered control, few sepoys survived as those who remained were bayoneted or otherwise slaughtered. Indeed, whole villages were wiped out, their inhabitants hanged for some real or imagined sympathy for the mutineers, and the widespread looting of Indian property, religious or secular, was common and endorsed. Later, convicted mutineers were lashed to the muzzles of cannon and had a roundshot fired through their body. Not unnaturally, like suttee, this unbelievably brutal punishment has attracted special attention in recent years. Though generally instantaneous enough, it had a further dimension: by dispersing the body into atoms, it could be assumed to deprive the victim of any hope of an afterlife.
[–]bhundekaram -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
Indians killing Indians. :(
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