"James Browne noted: ‘Of all instances of cruelty exercised on the propagators of new doctrines, this is the most barbarous and outrageous. Defenceless women and children have usually escaped even from religious fury. No wonder then, that the vengeance of the Sikhs was so severe.’"
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