This_person
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You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.
-- General Sir Charles James Napier, British Commander in Chief in India, 1849-51
-- General Sir Charles James Napier, British Commander in Chief in India, 1849-51