£2.7 billion is spent on the ‘carer’s allowance’, equivalent to the princely sum of £67.50 per week.

It was not just bloodlust and the urge for revenge which provided the motive for this mass slaughter: there was also money to be made. Informers were paid 2 rupees for every arrest, while the captors were allowed to keep “all money and gold found on the persons of mutineers captured.”