భారత స్వాతంత్రోద్యమం:ముస్లిం మహిళలు
worship of Hindoos and Mussalmans are to this day
entirely neglected; with all this, how can the people believe that religion will not be interfered with? The rebellion began with religion, and, for it, millions of men have
been killed. Let not our subjects be decieved; thousands
were deprived of their religion in the North-West, and
thousands were hanged rather than abandoned their
religion.
4. "t is written in the proclamation, that they who
harboured rebels, or who were leaders of rebels, or who
caused men to rebel, shall have their lives, but that punishment shall be awarded after deliberation, and that
murderers and abettors of murderers shall have no
mercy shown them, while all others shall be forgiven.
Any foolish person can see, that under this proclamation, no one, be he guilty or innocent, can escape. Everything is written, and yet nothing is written; but they
have clearly written that they will not let off any one
implicated; and in whatever village or estate the army
may have halted, the inhabitants of that place cannot
escape. We are deeply concerned for the condition of our
people on reading this proclamation, which palpably
teems with enmity. We now issue a distinct order, and
one that may be trusted that all subjects who may have
foolishly presented themselves as heads of villages to the
English, shall, before the 1st. of January next, present
themselves, in our camp. Without doubt their faults shall
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