Execution of mutineers in Peshawar

This is painting pertaining to scene depicted by Britishers of 1857 revolt. In the painting, the woman’s struggle to save her honour and her life is represented as having a deeper religious connotation. What did it indicate?

A battle to save the honor of Christianity.

The woman’s struggle to save her honor and her life, in fact, is represented as having a deeper religious connotation: it is a battle to save the honor of Christianity.