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On 25 June Nana Sahib made an offer of safe passage to Allahabad. With barely three days' food rations remaining, the British agreed, provided they could keep their small arms and that the evacuation should take place in daylight on the morning of the 27th (the Nana Sahib wanted the evacuation to take place on the night of the 26th).
Nana Saheb Peshwa II. Nana Saheb (19 May 1824 – 24 September 1859), born as Dhondu Pant, was an Indian Peshwa of the Maratha empire. An aristocrat and fighter, he led the rebellion in Cawnpore ( Kanpur) during the 1857 uprising. As the adopted son of the exiled Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao II, Nana Sahib believed that he should get a pension from ...
Nana Sahib's forces fought the British in the first battle of Bithoor on 13th July, but the British forces under the leadership of General Havelock took control of Bithoor on the same day. The role of Nana Sahib in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 is an essential part of India's freedom struggle.
Sep 26, 2015 · The Indian Rebellion leader Nana Sahib became Victorian Britain's most hated foreign enemy for his part in the 1857 Cawnpore massacres, in which British men, women, and children were killed after having been promised safe passage away from their besieged garrison. Facts were mixed with lurid fiction in reports which drew on villainous oriental ...
Jun 17, 2024 · The seizure of Delhi provided a focus and set the pattern for the whole mutiny, which then spread throughout northern India. With the exception of the Mughal emperor and his sons and Nana Sahib, the adopted son of the deposed Maratha peshwa, none of the important Indian princes joined the mutineers.
Jun 2, 2023 · Nana Sahib, also known as Dhondu Pant, was an Indian freedom fighter best known for his role in the 1857 rebellion against the British East India Company. He was the adopted son of a Maratha nobleman and leader of the Peshwa dynasty, Baji Rao II. Born in 1824, Nana Sahib was educated in English and was a military commander of the Maratha forces.
Nana Saheb: Background. He was born in Bithoor of Kanpur District in present day Uttar Pradesh in May 1824. He was initially named as Nana Govinda Dhondu Pant. His father travelled to the court of the Peshwa Baji Rao II in Pune and became his court official. He and his brother were adopted by the last Peshwa who in 1827.
