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Jul 19, 2018 · It does not fall to many of us to be worshipped as a living god, but that was the fate of John Nicholson, a 19th century British army officer in the service of the East India Company.
- Sean Lang
Historian, playwright and broadcaster. Senior Lecturer in...
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A family living through the Bengal famine, a time when three...
- Sean Lang
It does not fall to many of us to be worshipped as a living god, but that was the fate of John Nicholson, a 19th century British army officer in the service of the East India Company.
Jul 22, 2018 · It does not fall to many of us to be worshipped as a living god, but that was the fate of John Nicholson, a 19th century British army officer in the service of the East India Company.
John Nicholson was a British soldier and administrator who brought relief to Delhi during the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58. Nicholson became a cadet in the Bengal Army at the age of 17 and fought at Ghaznī during the First Afghan War (1839–42).
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Jul 21, 2018 · Sadist British Army officer John Nicholson had a religious cult dedicated to him that worshipped him as a God while he lived. This veneration continued long after he died till the 21st century.
He was born in Dublin and received an early education while living in Delgany, before the widowed mother took her family north to her old home in Lisburn. Nicholson, unlike the mother, was certainly no northern Bible basher. Violence. The violence associated with Nicholson could do with more analytical discussion.
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On reaching India in July 1839, Nicholson was ordered to join the 41st Native Infantry at Benares on temporary attachment. After spending four months being drilled on the realities of military life, he was transferred in December, as a regular Ensign, to the 27th Native Infantry based at Ferozepore. [11]
