1. Manisha Jain Said,

   Absolutely no justification for this kind of atrocity. Reading this gave me goose bumps. I just could visualize the writing bodies of women and children, the cries of agony, the horror mirrored in the eyes of the mother seeing their child/children being brutally murdered.

2. RG Said,

   The Bibighar was a rogue act perpetrated by, what appears to be, a mentally unbalance person.. The single redeeming feature was the sepoys refusal to participate in the carnage.. But Havlock’s letter makes me wonder, what kind of sick mind could actually sit down and cold bloodedly plan out such a punishment. I also wonder if the British soldiers will cooperate in this heinous act? After all what is wrong with the usual mode of punishment? The so called guilty can be hanged or even blasted off from the mouth a cannon.
   Well I wait with trepidation to see what transpires.

3. Sepoy Sunny Kalara Said,

   This is not something that he “planned to do”; this is something that HAPPENED.

4. RG Said,

   I do not agree with Sepoy Sunny Kalara’s statememt that the British had not “planned to do”; this grisly act and that “this is something that HAPPENED” …. Hasn’t Havlock mentioned quite clearly … “it is my object is to inflict a fearful punishment for a revolting, cowardly, barbarous deed, and to strike terror in the hearts of these rebels” ? Havelock sounds positively gleeful that by planning out this macabre punishment he would also “doom their (sepoys’) soul to perdition”

5. Gautam Gupta Said,

   Ref; RGs comments above . What she ascribes to Havelock were actually what Neill wrote to the Supreme Government in Calcutta.. The bodies of mutiniated women and children lying in the uncoverd well ,in positions most grotesque, filled the Britishers with a desire for wreaking vengeaance with utmost ferocity. For a great majority of them , for July 16 onwards, every black skinned person was a rebel deserving instant justice.The entire gamut of Indo-British relationship was redefined consequent upon the Cawnpore massacre. The echo of “Mutiny” loomed large in the minds of the British rulers right up to the end of their rule. Even Jallianwallah Bagh massacre was justified by many Europeans on the grounds that it pre-empted a second “Mutiny”. and thus saved the empire! A fund was consequently raised in Britain in honour of General Dyer, the perpetrator of the mayhem at Jallianwallah Bagh massacre.

6. Gautam Gupta Said,

   Delete the last word of Para 5 above.

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