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2022-02-16 -Short Attention Span Theater-
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Did a flatbread help end British rule in India?
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[BBC] In the 19th Century, a peculiar paranoia gripped the British East India Company: were the Indian people using flatbreads to transmit cryptic messages?
Something perplexing began in India in 1857.
Chapatis – thin pancakes of unleavened bread, traditionally cooked on a griddle – started making their way from village to village. A messenger would appear with the flatbread, and hand it over to the headman of a village. The headman would then dispatch a fresh batch on to the next village, and so on and so on.
In such a fashion, the chapatis perambulated around north India, all the way from the principality of Indore, in what is now the central state of Madhya Pradesh, to the city of Gwalior in north of the state. They found their way to Rohilkhand, in what is now the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, through the region that was once the historical kingdom of Awadh and further south to Allahabad, which is now known as Prayagraj, also in Uttar Pradesh. It was estimated by British military leaders that the chapatis were travelling up to 160-200 miles a night, a speed that would have outstripped the mail service at the time. Sometimes, the chapatis were accompanied by a lotus flowers, sometimes goat flesh, but mostly it was just chapatis, alone and unencumbered.
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