The Tartan Turban: In Search of Alexander Gardner by John Keay

Author:John Keay [Keay, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781911271062
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 2017-02-16T04:30:00+00:00

Jodha Ram gave offence to the new minister [Jowahir Singh] and was given over to one of those cruel sentences which Runjit Singh was accustomed to call mercy. But Jodha Ram was a Brahmin, and no Hindu would do the deed which would secure to himself damnation through a hundred generations. The Kotwal [police superintendent] of the city of Lahore—a Mussalman [Muslim], and no very particular person, who had for years been the municipal instrument of violence—was therefore ordered to cut off the ears and nose of the wretched man. He too refused; and we blush to record that the only man in Lahore who could be found to execute the barbarous decree was a European. Mr Gardener, or Gordana, in the Sikh artillery took a razor and with his own hands in cold blood, without personal enmity of any sort, inflicted the punishment which Sikhs, Hindus and Mussalmen had shrunk from in disgust. But then he was made a colonel; and as Walpole observed, ‘Every man has his price. The only thing is to find it out!’454

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