Manipur Mischief by William Wright


ISBN
9781445671833
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
272
Dimensions
156 x 234mm

In 1891 the hill state and principality of Manipur erupted in violence, the worst bloodshed in India since the Great Mutiny, 34 years earlier. The Manipuris even chopped off the head of the Chief Commissioner of Assam and those of his entourage including the British Resident, handsome Frank Grimwood, leaving his beautiful young wife Ethel alone and the only woman in a world gone mad. The rising resulted in the largest colonial expedition ever mounted on the North-East Frontier of India and the worst fighting there until the Second World War. William Wright unlocks the secret government files, long buried and hushed-up, to reveal a story out of the pages of Somerset Maugham or Conrad, one of colossal military ineptitude alongside VC-winning heroism, involving pornography and paedophilia. You will never think of the Empire-builders in quite the same way again! There were no Maxim guns, so no mowing down of helpless natives, just hard slog, with Ethel playing a brave part in the retreat from Manipur, not knowing her husband had already been beheaded, his feet also lopped off and thrown to the pariah dogs. Behind the bravery, the scandal was complex: two officers leading the escape from Manipur were court-martialled, their trial records made top secret. The following trial of the Manipuri princes was not legal and even Queen Victoria asked for them to be found not guilty but the Viceroy was determined to aid a cover-up. Ethel preferred the company of her handsome step-brother to that of Frank, her husband. And then we have Frank - whose hobby was photographing nude young girls ... which led directly to his gruesome death.
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