A Soldier From 1857, How This Unknown Indian's Head Ended Up In An English Pub
Promotion Dr Kim Ati Wagner, a Danish-British historian of colonial India, received a peculiar email sitting in his London office in 2014. It was from an old English couple who owned The Lord Clyde pub in Kent, a county in England. They wrote that they had discovered a human skull hidden under a bundle of unused boxes and crates in 1963. The skull was missing its lower jaw, the few remaining teeth it had were loose, and a note was found lodged in its eye socket. The note, written in elegant 19th-century handwriting, read: “Skull of Havildar “Alum Bheg”, 46th Regt. Bengal N. Infantry who...
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