...ensured by 1805 that Britain. not the Maratha Confederacy. would be the paramount power in India. Let us propose a Bill for the flaying alive. impalement or burning of the murderers of women and children at DelhL The idea of simply hanging the perpetrators of such atrocities is maddening....

...none so much as Colonel John Nicholson [qv], who, in a letter to Herbert Edwardes [qv], wrote: "Let us propose a Bill for the flaying alive, impalement or burning of the murderers of women and children at Delhi. The idea of simply hanging the perpetrators of such atrocities is maddening."...

...with redoubled cruelty, terror with terror, blood with blood. At Delhi, Nicholson had urged, 'Let us propose a Bill for the flaying alive, impalement,...the perpetrators of such atrocities is maddening.' Sir Henry Cotton was summoned from his tent by a Sikh orderly. 'I think, sir, you would like to see...

...afterwards. Brigadier General Nicholson wrote to Herbert Edwards, Commissioner of Peshawar, "Let us propose a Bill for the flaying alive, impalement or...the perpetrators of such atrocities is maddening." RC Majumdar: British Paramountcy and Indian Renaissance - Part I Nicholson's thoughts did not remain...

...Herbert Edwardes (like him and like Neill, an ardent evangelical) in which he announces his intention to propose a bill for "the flaying alive, impalement,...the murderers of the women and children at Delhi" (2:401). "If I could, I would inflict the most excruciating tortures I could think of on them with...