[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912) › v2.c27.80 # History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v2.c27.80 History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v2.c27.80 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c27.80](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v2.c27.80) ∗ "Unscrupulous, unprincipled,...\[Hodson\] was a man without fear, if not without reproach....In slaying them as he did he was guilty of an outrage against humanity." Holmes's \*Indian Mutiny\* (4th ed.), 372, 377. "The spirit of the condottiere now came into play \[in Hodson's mind.\] A more brutal or a more unnecessary outrage was never committed....Not a single item of evidence had been adduced to substantiate the charge \[that the princes had instigated the massacre of Europeans in May.\]" Malleson's \*Indian Mutiny\* (ed. of 1879), ii. 77, 80. With their dying breath the princes vainly appealed to Hodson to make a \*tahqiq\* (investigation) into their conduct, before shooting them. - [Previous: v2.c27.79](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v2.c27.79) - [Next: v2.c28.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v2.c28.1) - [Up: v2.c27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v2.c27) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v2.c27.80](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v2.c27.80) · Pramāṇa