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by Hyder Ali in the fortress of Seringapatnam. Many of the prisoners of war were forcibly circumcised in Mysorean captivity. Cromwell Massey, who kept a secret diary during his captivity, wrote: "I lost with the foreskin of my yard all those benefits of a Christian and Englishman which were and ever shall be my greatest glory." Adolescent captives were, in addition to being circumcised, made to wear female clothes. James Bristow, a teenage

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