Hans Rustad Johan Zoffany Colonel Mordaunt’s Cock Match circa 1784-6. Tate Gallery This picture shows an unruly sporting event at the court of the Nawab (governor) of Oudh in northern India. It highlights the looser moral codes of colonial life. In Britain, cockfighting was frowned on as cruel, but in colonial India the ‘normal’ rules of morality […]
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