In pre-partition India, when the Viceroy’s Council passed the infamous Vernacular Press Act, 1878, one of the British members of the council said: “No government such as ours in India.
In an interview, historian Hardeep Dhillon says that a grossly racialised legal structure was put in place by the British government to compensate Europeans affected in the massacre while undervaluing the claims made by families of Indians killed or injured in the incident.
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