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Manipur Mischief - Rebellion, Scandal, and the Dark Side of the Raj, 1891 (Hardcover)
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Manipur Mischief - Rebellion, Scandal, and the Dark Side of the Raj, 1891 (Hardcover)
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In 1891 the hill state and principality of Manipur erupted in
violence, the worst bloodshed in India since the Great Mutiny
thirty-four years earlier. The Manipuris even chopped off the head
of the Chief Commissioner of Assam and those of his entourage
including the British Resident, handsome Frank Grimwood, leaving
his beautiful young wife Ethel alone and the only woman in a world
gone mad. The rising resulted in the largest colonial expedition
ever mounted on the North-East Frontier of India and the worst
fighting there until the Second World War. William Wright unlocks
the secret government files, long buried and hushed-up, to reveal a
story out of the pages of Somerset Maugham or Conrad; one of
colossal military ineptitude alongside VC-winning heroism,
involving pornography and paedophilia. On this evidence, it is
impossible to think of the Empire-builders in quite the same way
again! There were no Maxim guns, so no mowing down of helpless
natives, just hard slog and the edge of the Gurkha's Kukri, with
Ethel playing a courageous part in the retreat from Manipur, not
knowing her husband had already been beheaded, his feet also lopped
off and thrown to the pariah dogs. Behind the bravery, the scandal
was complex. The subsequent trial of the Manipuri princes was not
legal and even Queen Victoria asked for them to be found not
guilty, but the Viceroy was determined to aid a cover-up. Ethel
preferred the company of her handsome stepbrother to that of Frank,
her husband. Frank's hobby was photographing nude young girls ...
did that lead directly to his gruesome death? 13 August is now
celebrated yearly as 'Patriot's Day' by the Manipuris. They may not
know exactly what they are celebrating.
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