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Lord Ellenborough as a dancing girl in a Hindu temple; representing press allegations that, as Governor-General of India, he favoured Hinduism over Islam in his policy towards the gates of the temple at Somnath. Wood engraving by or after J.K. Meadows, 1843. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
She holds a tambourine inscribed "The insult of 8 hundred years is avenged". The subject is the policy of Lord Ellenborough, as Governor-General of India, towards the wooden gates of a tomb in Afghanistan which were believed to have been removed by a Muslim conqueror from a Hindu temple at Somnath in Gujarat approximately 800 years previously. Ellenborough's policy was to return them to Somnath. The affair was debated in the British Parliament in 1843, the debate including speeches by Lord Brougham (disputing the press allegations) and T.B. Macaulay
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