How statues fared after independence | Letter

Prof Sarah Ansari on symbols of imperialism in Pakistan and IndiaIt wasn’t just Queen Victoria in Lahore who was removed from public view with the ending of the British empire (Letters, 17 June). A statue of the 19th-century British viceroy Lord Lawrence, who had led troops “recapturing” Delhi during the 1857-58 rebellion, was quietly removed from Lahore’s mall in August 1950, while across the new border in India similar action took place.Interestingly, in 1957, on the oc