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The performance of terror

 

5.4 The performance of terror

The urge for vengeance and retribution was expressed in the brutal way in which the rebels were executed. They were blown from guns, or hanged from the gallows. Images of these executions were widely circulated through popular journals.

Fig. 11.16 Execution of mutinous sepoys in Peshawar , Illustrated London News, 3 October 1857 In this scene of execution 12 rebels hang in a row, with cannons all around them. What you see is not r outine punishment: it is the per formance of terr or. For it to instil fear among people, punishment could not be discreetly meted out in enclosed spaces. It had to be

 


 


 

 

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