The last mughal6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() The British authorities had made sure not only that the grave was already dug, but that quantities of lime were on hand to guarantee the rapid decay of both bier and body. Nevertheless, one or two managed to break through the cordon to touch the shroud before it was lowered into the grave. No women were allowed to attend, and a small crowd from the bazaar who had somehow heard about the prisoner's death were kept away by armed guards. The bier of the State Prisoner - as the deceased was referred to - was accompanied by two of his sons and an elderly, bearded mullah. ![]() Around the enclosure lay the newly constructed cantonment area of the port - an anchorage and pilgrimage town that had been seized, burned and occupied by the British only ten years earlier. ![]() This enclosure lay overlooking the muddy brown waters of the Rangoon river, a little downhill from the great gilt spire of the Shwe Dagon pagoda. on a hazy, humid winter's afternoon in Rangoon in November 1862, soon after the end of the monsoon, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an anonymous grave at the back of a walled prison enclosure. ![]()
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