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Team or Enterprise Premium FT. Pay based on use. In Napier was in India commanding a British army in Sindh. His conquest of Sindh nowadays in Pakistan in was the stuff of imperial legend, a string of victories against massive odds.
Ruled by a federation of chieftains, Sindh was a wealthy province with a thriving textile industry. While many complained that Napier was exceeded his orders, neither the Honourable East India Company nor the British government was in any hurry to return it to the control of its amirs.
This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed.
Let us all act according to national customs. The widow was thus saved, and the practice ultimately banned in areas under British control.
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