Women are usually vulnerable in wars. The siege of Delhi, after the Indian mutiny, was not different from others. We mentioned an account from different sources in our previous posts, how misfortunes descended upon the women of Shahjahanabad (Delhi), which they suffered from the British East India Company army. Here we are mentioning the most authentic source; an account provided by the most popular poet of Delhi of that time, Mirza Asadullah Ghalib in his many letters to his friends and students.
History of the Indian subcontinent
Ghalib’s Account
The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple. Pages 462-463.
The painting, ‘The flight from Lucknow, 1858′, by British painter Abraham Solomon. From Journal, The British Empire series 23, The Indian Mutiny Shock revolt, Savage reprisals.