Talk:William Henry Sleeman

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This article should be put under geniuses. For William Sleeman was a genius--212.219.59.228 (talk) 10:25, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Report in 1889

I doubt that he had a report made, having died 33 years earlier. I changed that to 1839. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.199.131.148 (talk) 17:05, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

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Slurs
QUOTE: Unlike the vast majority of British officers, he was never known to have used slurs like "niggers" or "blacks" to describe his Indian household servants or sepoy soldiers. END OF QUOTE.

This is a very bad piece of writing. English officials (do not know about the Celtic speakers) who lived in the Subcontinent did not use bad words to their serving persons. In fact, it was the native landlords and their henchmen who used words like Nee, Thoo, Eda, Edi, Enthada, Enthadi, Avattkal, Chekkan, Cherumann, Pennu, Avan, Aval &c. to their serving persons. People who have first hand information on how the Englishmen related to the local populations, know that most persons who served them improved much in the local society. However, this was a very bad experience for the local social higher ups and their henchmen who took up the argument that it was the Englishmen who were using bad words to their serving classes.

However, it might be true that the Englishmen might have used word inserted in the article by some clown to these clowns and their ancestors.

Sleeman and Jim Corbett
In Tarun Kumar Bhaduri's book 'Behor, baaghi, banduk', about the dacoits of the Chambal region, there is a story about Sleeman and Corbett working together to capture the 'baaghi' Sultana. As far as I remember, this was also mentioned in Jim Corbett's autobiography 163.116.199.119 (talk) 08:47, 27 September 2021 (UTC)