Just like the British Enfield Rifle united hindus and muslims by using cartridges packed in beef grease and pig lard.
Did you see that on PBS the other night? I did, on the program about Queen Victoria and the Indian revolts around 1860. Quite the move, mixing both beef and pig grease--not halal, and tough on the sacred cow. And this was just at the dawn of the petroleum age, which brought non-animal based grease. Talk about bad timing.
You saw that on PBS, didn’t you? I cringed when I heard that, because Lee-Enfield rifles hadn’t been invented at the time of the Sepoy Mutiny.