Nana Sahib

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Nana Sahib
Birthday	Wednesday, May 19, 1824
Birthplace	Bithoor
Nationality	Indian

Nana Sahib

(nä`nä sä`hĭb), b. c.1821, leader in the Indian MutinyIndian Mutiny,
1857–58, revolt that began with Indian soldiers in the Bengal army of the British East India Company but developed into a widespread uprising against British rule in India. It is also known as the Sepoy Rebellion, sepoys being the native soldiers.
..... Click the link for more information. , his real name was Dhundu Pant. The adopted son of the last peshwa (hereditary prime minister) of the Marathas, his request (1853) to the British to grant him the peshwa's title and pension was refused. In the outbreak (June, 1857) of the mutiny at Cawnpore (KanpurKanpur
, city (1991 pop. 2,029,889), Uttar Pradesh state, N central India, on the Ganges River. A major industrial center, it produces chemicals, textiles, leather goods, and food products. It is also a transportation hub with an airport.
..... Click the link for more information. ) his men massacred the British garrison and colony. After suppression of the rebellion, he escaped to Nepal, where he probably died.

Bibliography

See P. C. Gupta, Nana Sahib and the Rising at Cawnpore (1963).

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Nana Sahib

Born about 1824; year of death unknown. One of the leaders of the Indian Popular Uprising of 1857–59 (Sepoy Mutiny).

Nana Sahib was the foster son of a Maratha peshwa (chief minister), who was the recipient of a pension from the English East India Company. After the death of the peshwa in 1851, the company refused to continue payments to Nana Sahib. Having joined the insurgents, Nana Sahib proclaimed himself peshwa in June 1857, establishing his power in the city of Kanpur and the surrounding district. He fought the colonialists in a number of major battles. In mid-July 1857 he suffered defeat at Kanpur and retreated to Oudh. After the major centers of the uprising were suppressed, Nana Sahib hid in the jungles of northern India. His subsequent fate is unknown.

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Nana Sahib's leadership and mass mobilization carried importance after the war had concluded.

Select persons have been painted as the organizers of the revolt, namely Nana Sahib. However, evidence points to Nana Sahib's participation as limited and narcissistic.

The significance of the different names applied by historians to the events of 1857

That force arrived too late to forestall the ultimate savagery of the slaughter of the garrison on the banks of the Ganges after Nana Sahib had granted them 'safe conduct'.

Our Bones are Scattered

There were Indians too in 1857 in Kanpur who did not approve of the massacres; according to one witness, Nana Sahib himself did not approve of the killing of women and children at Satichaura Ghat.(6) I was writing about a general tendency and about a major thrust of policy.

And it was that belief that made them often overlook a number of things: aspects of popular and united action when the uprising first started, the fact that men like Nana Sahib, Tantia Topi, Azimullah and Teeka Singh could work together, that the killing of the British was witnessed by a jubilant crowd, and that repeatedly in every proclamation issued the leaders talked in terms of Hindu-Muslim unity.

Debate: the Kanpur massacres in India in the revolt of 1857

LORALAI -- At least one person has been killed and six others have been injured in firing at a passenger van by unknown armed assailants in Nana Sahib, Dukki area of Loralai district, on Tuesday.

Police said that a passenger van was on way from Loni area to Dukki when it was attacked by unknown attackers.Seven people sustained bullet wounds in firing at their van by unknown assailants as the vehicle reached in Nana Sahib Ziarat area of Dukki teshil, they, adding that the miscreants fled from the scene.

One dead, six injured in Dukki firing

Worried seer According to experts, Nana Sahib -- the talukedar of Bithur in Kanpur -- was a friend of Rao Ram Baksh Singh.

' Book us if you can't find the treasure'

Sources: Gupta, Pratul Chandra, Nana Sahib and the Rising at Cawnpore.

Nana Sahib (Dandu Panth) (c. 1821-1860)

According to details armed men opened fire at Nana Sahib Road Gadai here today.

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1810); he was a Brahmin of Mahratta stock in the service of Nana Sahib; appointed by Nana Sahib to raise troops early in the Indian Mutiny (1857), he adopted "Tantia Topi" as a nom de guerre; one of the leaders of the massacre at Cawnpore (June 27, 1857); he prepared a good defensive position at Bithur, but was driven from there by a British force under Sir Henry Havelock (August 16); he defeated Gen.

Tantia Topi (Tatya Tope, Ramchandra Panduroga) (c. 1810-1859)

In the meanwhile Luni tribesmen snatched two flying coaches at Nana Sahib Ziarat belonging to Ghazi Khan Nassar.