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.
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'.
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.
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.
Worried seer According to experts,
Nana Sahib -- the talukedar of Bithur in Kanpur -- was a friend of Rao Ram Baksh Singh.
Sources: Gupta, Pratul Chandra,
Nana Sahib and the Rising at Cawnpore.
According to details armed men opened fire at
Nana Sahib Road Gadai here today.
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.
In the meanwhile Luni tribesmen snatched two flying coaches at
Nana Sahib Ziarat belonging to Ghazi Khan Nassar.