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Sher Ali Afridi

A respected frontier cavalry trooper whose sense of honor and subsequent unjust imprisonment in Kala Pani led him to assassinate Viceroy Lord Mayo in 1872, shocking the British Empire.

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A respected frontier cavalry trooper whose sense of honor and subsequent unjust imprisonment in Kala Pani led him to assassinate Viceroy Lord Mayo in 1872, shocking the British Empire.

Sources

  1. 1.The Assassination of Lord Mayo: The "First" Jihad? — Dr. Helen James