Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, was assassinated on 8 February 1872 by Sher Ali Afridi, a disgruntled Indian soldier of Afghan Muslim background,
'The Assassination of Lord Mayo' from Cassel's Illustrated History of India (1880)
Lord Mayo's funeral in Calcutta
Shere Ali, assassin of Lord Mayo
Earl of Mayo, Richard Southwell Bourke
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The Delhi Conspiracy case, also known as the Delhi-Lahore Conspiracy, refers to an attempt made in 1912 to assassinate the then Viceroy of India, Lord Hardinge by throwing a local self-made bomb of An
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