Revolt of 1857 (Set 1)

Seven of the ten companies of the 34th Bengal Native Infantry were disbanded “with disgrace” on 6 May 1857, just before the wider Revolt of 1857 erupted at Meerut.

She was born Mohammadi Khanum, at Faizabad in 1820, before her marriage to Nawab Wajid Ali Shah.

The siege ran from 30 May to 27 November 1857, roughly six months, before the British recaptured Lucknow in March 1858.

Queen Victoria’s proclamation of 1 November 1858 transferred India from Company to Crown rule; Hazrat Mahal’s counter-proclamation rebutted its claims.

She fled to Nepal after the British recaptured Lucknow in 1858, and died in exile in Kathmandu in 1879.

Turrebaz Khan led an attack on the British Residency in Hyderabad on 17 July 1857, one of several regional flashpoints during that year’s wider revolt.

The attack aimed to free Jamedar Cheeda Khan, a soldier imprisoned inside the Residency. The rebels breached the walls but could not withstand the British counter-attack.

A reward of Rs 5,000 was announced for Turrebaz Khan, dead or alive, after his escape. He was tracked down and killed near Tupran within days.

Turrebaz Khan led the attack together with Maulvi Alauddin, mobilising thousands of rebels against the Residency.

Hyderabad was a princely state under the Nizam, who remained allied with the British. Turrebaz Khan’s attack was a local, popular uprising against that arrangement, not an official state action.

Shah Mal rallied the “Chaurasi Des,” or 84 villages, of the Baraut region against British rule in 1857.

Shah Mal converted a captured English official’s bungalow into a “Hall of Justice,” administering local justice in place of British authority.

Shah Mal’s fighters destroyed the boat bridge over the Yamuna at Baghpat, disrupting British communication and supply lines.

Harsh, rigid British land revenue demands pushed cultivators near Baraut into debt and land loss, driving Shah Mal’s uprising.

Shah Mal died in hand-to-hand combat near Baraut, after British rifle units and cavalry overwhelmed his fighters on 18 July 1857.

Jadonang was formally charged over the deaths of four Meitei traders killed at Longkao, though accounts of the movement say he had no direct role in the killings.

He deposed Rewari’s British-appointed officials, occupied the town, and proclaimed his own rule under Bahadur Shah II’s sanction.

He sent Rs 45,000 through General Bakht Khan and supplied about 2,000 sacks of wheat, ten days before Delhi fell.

The battle was fought at Nasibpur, on the outskirts of Narnaul, with his forces led by his cousin Rao Kishan Singh.