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Sidney Low in his book ‘Vision of India’ writes
“But as we gaze upon the distant dome of Humayun’s tomb, floating in the luminous gaze of morning or the amber and emerald of the sunset sky, we remember that once, at least , the sanctuary was violated. It was from these vaults, after Delhi had fallen, in September 1857, that Hodson, of Hodson’s horse, that dashing, daring, reckless adventurer dragged out the last of the Moghuls, the puppet king who had been made the nominal head of the rebellion. The coffin of his ancestor could not shield the trembling old intriguer from the arm of England and an English prison. Nor could it save his sons from a darker room. It was Humayun’s monument that the princes were hiding in when this same Hodson sought them out the following day. Tall and thin, with red hair, and faming blue eyes all alright with the concentrated wrath that was burning in English hearts in that grim autumn, a hundred of his wild horsemen at his heels, the fierce guerilla chief burst into the crowd that beset the mausoleum. Before that Spirit of Vengeance, Mosleme fanaticism quailed. With ten men, Hodson disarmed the clamorous mob in the garden of the tomb and took a thousand swords and fire arms from them. Then he brought the fugitives through the throng, and carried them on that famous and fatal drive to the Delhi Gate, where he shot them with is own hand, while a host of Mohammedans looked on, paralysed with fear and horror. Al bloody deed; but let us remember that it was the year of the Cawnpore massacres before we pass hasty judgement upon it and its author.” (written in 1906)
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