"Sankaran Nair points out that ‘in addition to those mentioned in these articles two other forms of torture were credibly reported as having been resorted to in the case of men, namely, skinning alive, and making them dig their own graves before their slaughter."
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Sankaran Nair, Gandhi and Anarchy, 40, quoted in RC Majumdar History Of The Freedom Movement In India vol 3, (191ff)
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C. Sankaran Nair
Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair, CIE (11 July 1857 – 24 April 1934) was a lawyer who also served as a President of the Indian National Congress in 1897 at the meeting held at Amravati. He wrote Gandhi and Anarchy (1922).
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