Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Niall Moorjani plays a storyteller facing public execution for joining an uprising against India's colonial rulers When it comes to cruel and unusual punishment, it is hard to think of anything more grizzly than that meted out by the British army in Kanpur (then anglicised as Cawnpore) in retribution for the 19th-century Indian uprising against colonial occupat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM on August 1, 2025