Harrytheheid
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Folks.....I just know that I'm going to get banned for this.....Sorry Shannon.
Following is a quote describing Nana Sahib's Dad from "Our Bones Are Scattered" by an author called Andrew Ward which is one of the best and funniest books I've EVER read concerning the Sepoy Mutiny.
Baji Roa entered middle age as an enthusiastic debaucee. Saturday House (My Itallics) was said to contain apartments "horribly unfit for any human eye; in which both European and Native artists had done their uttmost to gratify the corrupt master".
At Poona, it was customary for appointment seekers to offer up their wives and daughters to his libido, which was evidently not satisfied by his many wives and legions of concubines. Although Baji Roa was only forty-one when he surrendered (to the British - My Italics), he appeared so reduced that even as the British handed him his pension they comforted themselves with the thought that he would not live long to collect it.
He was reputedly impotent from venereal disease, hopelessly adicted to opium, and despondent over his lost glory. But the British were always overestimating the debauchery of Indian Princes. By 1818 he had already outlived four of his six wives and after moving to Bithur - married five more...!!!! (My Italics and exclamation marks).
What a Dude.....?????
Best Regards and ummmm talk to yaa in a couple of weeks from now......
H
Following is a quote describing Nana Sahib's Dad from "Our Bones Are Scattered" by an author called Andrew Ward which is one of the best and funniest books I've EVER read concerning the Sepoy Mutiny.
Baji Roa entered middle age as an enthusiastic debaucee. Saturday House (My Itallics) was said to contain apartments "horribly unfit for any human eye; in which both European and Native artists had done their uttmost to gratify the corrupt master".
At Poona, it was customary for appointment seekers to offer up their wives and daughters to his libido, which was evidently not satisfied by his many wives and legions of concubines. Although Baji Roa was only forty-one when he surrendered (to the British - My Italics), he appeared so reduced that even as the British handed him his pension they comforted themselves with the thought that he would not live long to collect it.
He was reputedly impotent from venereal disease, hopelessly adicted to opium, and despondent over his lost glory. But the British were always overestimating the debauchery of Indian Princes. By 1818 he had already outlived four of his six wives and after moving to Bithur - married five more...!!!! (My Italics and exclamation marks).
What a Dude.....?????
Best Regards and ummmm talk to yaa in a couple of weeks from now......
H
