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The Mutiny in India began in 1857 and came as a total surprise to the British civil and military authorities. Among the native troops, malicious rumour had spread that the cartridges for the mew musket had been greased with beef and pork fat, the one sacred to the Hindu and the other an abomination to the Muslim.
It was claimed that the British authorities had an ulterior motive in wishing to deprive the Hindu of his caste, and defile the Muslim - an underhand ...
Arakan, the deprived cousin of Myanmar (Burma), has long been neglected. Its antique works of art vandalized or incompetently renovated by the present Buddhist clergy. During the early yeas of the Christian era, despite rumours of demonic cannibals, its fertile plains attracted Hindu colonists. Their nobility founded dynasties. At the inauguration of the metropolis of the Chandra maharaja(s), its inhabitants derided the grandeur of ...