c. 1905
Publisher No.:
7234
13.80x
8.90cm
In one of the earliest series of postcards of India by Tuck, four of the six Kanpur postcards recalled events a half-century earlier; the "Mutiny," as the British called this major uprising against their rule remained very much part of colonial consciousness.
[Original caption] The Massacre Ghat. On the 27th June, 1857, the garrison, having capitulated, endeavoured to embark here under promise of safe passage to Allahabad. Fire was treacherously opened upon them, from the banks, by the rebels; a few escaped, 125 women were carried back to Cawnpore and slaughtered, their bodies being case into the Well. [end]
For another view of the Massacre Ghat, see another view from the same period.