Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c8.s3.17
Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c8.s3.17
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v1.c8.s3.17
They write, "The *Bargis* cut off the ears, noses and hands of multitudes of people, or killed them with many kinds of torture and suffering,—by gagging their mouths with bags of dust or drowning them. They destroyed the honour of the people" (*i.e.* outraged the women.) The letters from the French factory at Chandarnagar and the English settlement of Calcutta tell the same tale of oppression.