Talk:Robert Thorpe (Indian Army officer)

Jane Strand's information

It is a pity that Ashiq Hussain couldn't get his article published in a mainstream Kashmiri newspaper. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 22:36, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

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Confirmation of Jane Strand's information is from John Christophers, whose great grandfather is also William Tudor Thorp. The correct spelling is Thorp not Thorpe (contact www.gro.gov.uk for a copy of the birth certificate whose reference details are Quarter 1, Alnwick, Volume 25, Page 189). Robert Thorp does not have Indian parents. John Christophers has many letters, and Indian newspaper cuttings passed down to him within the Thorp family in Northumberland. These include letters from Captain George Benjamin Wolseley to William Tudor Thorp and to Robert Thorp's mother, Elizabeth Jane Thorp, and a copy of a letter from Robert Thorp to his very close friend Captain George Benjamin Wollesley written the day before Robert Thorp's death. Some of the Indian newspapers have accounts of the circumstances of Robert Thorp's death and detailed accounts of the autopsy by Dr Henry Cayley on the cause of death - a heart attack (A detailed account of the circumstances attending the death of the late Mr R Thorp at Srinigar - The Delhi Gazette Tuesday 5 January 1869, pages 27 and 28). Dr Cayley's autopsy results were examined by three British doctors (C M Smith Surgeon Major, Civil Surgeon Lahore, J B Scriven Surgeon, principal , Medical School Lahore, T E B Brown MD assistant surgeon, professor of chemistry, Medical School Lahore)at Lahore and all signed agreement to Robert Thorp's death being due to a heart attack ( Report on Mr Thorp's Heart - The Indian Public Opinion and Panjab Times, Lahore December 29th 1868, pages 37 & 38).

-- Kautilya3 (talk) 11:07, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

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The stories

Basharat Peer's award-winning book, Curfewed Night, says

Pratap Singh, the ruler, planned to silence him. One winter morning in 1868, Thorpe was walking towards the Shankaracharya hill in Srinagar. Singh's men attacked him with daggers. The brave writer fell and died there. He was buried in a Christian cemetery behind Lal Chowk.

Well, for a start Pratap Singh was not the ruler in 1868. (This popped up when I looked for information about the Lal Chowk, the "red square", which was named in honour of the Soviet Union.) -- Kautilya3 (talk) 22:35, 27 January 2022 (UTC)