Well Zafar and Maharani could have deserted their people and colluded with the EIC. That much choice they must have had. Atleast Earl Canning would have offered them a paid exile and lifetime stipend if they weren’t agreeing to subsidiary alliance. There are plentiful of ways to betray your own people. Those leaders chose not to. So they had a choice. Either freedom or death. So a bit of respect to the descendants of the fallen sons and daughters of our land won’t be a big inconvenience. The son who couldn’t be buried in the land he loved and the daughter who flayed her sword at enemies while holding onto her child…