Slaughter in Bombay

January 13th, 2020

From Allen’s Indian Mail, December 3rd, 1851

BOMBAY. MUSULMAN FANATICISM.

On the evening of November 15th, the little village of Mahim was the scene of a murder, perhaps the most determined which has ever stained the annals of Bombay. Three men were massacred in cold blood, in a house used […]

Category: Dispatches from the Empire

News from the Empire – Jan. 17th, 1851 Vol IX-No.165 – Allen’s Indian Mail

March 30th, 2018

Filed under Miscellaneous.

The Jubbulpore School of Industry is so thriving that the pupils, 800 in number, are obliged to work till ten o’clock at night to complete their orders; this they do most cheerfully. They are all Thugs, or the children of Thugs, and the hands which now ply […]

Category: Dispatches from the Empire

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

— Seneca the Younger