Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
Posts in The Copybook credited to ‘Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom’
In The Copybook
Posts in The Copybook credited to ‘Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom’
In The Copybook
Queen Victoria assured her subjects that there were no second-class citizens in her eyes.
After the Indian Mutiny in 1857, some Indians were concerned that Britain intended to force them to convert to Christianity. However, Victoria reassured them that (in contrast to some Indian religions and laws) forcible conversion and ‘second-class citizen’ are both concepts alien to the British constitution.