Today, I humbly submit, a rare photograph of a Hosay, or Mohurrum, as it was called by the British, festival in the 19th century. It's a particularly interesting photograph, because it appears to show the convergence of cultures and races, Indian and African, in a shared Muslim religious celebration. It is also a time portal back to a dark period in our history, the Hosay Massacre of 1884.

Indeed, some of the people in this photograph, may have been witness to that tragedy. I have a copy of the British report of the occurance, and will post it here, in its entirety, over the next little while. It is, even today, an inflammatory document, and I post it simply as a 140 year old historical document. Each reader can make of it as they like.