Page 53 - SST Class 08

Faizabad Maulvi Ahmadullah (He declared the Revolt as Jihad against English)
Farrukhabad Tufzal Hasan Khan
Bijnaur Mohammad Khan
Muradabad Abdul Ali Khan

Bareilly Khan Bahadur Khan
Mandsor Firoz Shah

Gwalior/Kanpur Tantia Tope
Assam Kandapareshwar Singh, Manirama Datta
Orissa Surendra Shahi, Ujjwal Shahi
Kullu Raja Pratap Singh

Rajasthan Jaidayal Singh and Hardayal Singh
Gorakhpur Gajadhar Singh
Mathura Sevi Singh, Kadam Singh

SPREAD OF THE REVOLT Jhansi : After some initial vacillations, Rani
The revolt spread to Berhampur in Bengal. On Laxmi Bai assumed the leadership of the mutiny.
24th April 1857, about ninety men of the Native After being defeated at Jhansi, she captured
Cavalry stationed at Meerut refused to accept the Gwalior with the help of Tantia Tope and Afghan
greased cartridges. Eighty-five of them were guards.
dismissed and sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment. On 10th May, the revolt started at Meerut
and the mutineers after killing some of their
officials marched towards Delhi.
Delhi : On 12th May 1857, Delhi was seized
and Bahadur Shah II was proclaimed the
emperor of India. The real command was in the
hands of Bakht Khan who had led the revolt at
Bareilly and brought the troops to Delhi.
Kanpur : Here, the revolt was led by Nana
Saheb who declared himself the Peshwa and Rani Laxmi Bai Tantia Tope
governor of Bahadur Shah. Tantia Tope did most
of the fighting. Rebels defeated General Bareily : Khan Bahadur Khan proclaimed
Windham outside Kanpur. himself as the Nawab and led the revolt there.
The other centers of the revolt were Benaras,
Lucknow : The revolt was led by Hazrat Mahal,
Allahabad, Gwalior, Nasirabad in Rajputana,
the Begum of Awadh. She had proclaimed her
Indore, Aligarh and Kota. At all these places, the
young son Brijis Kadiras the Nawab of Awadh
sepoys killed the senior officers and other
against the wishes of the British. Henry
Europeans on whom they could lay their hands,
Lawrence, the British resident was killed at
in many cases not even sparing women and
Lucknow.
children. They also released prisoners from jail,

Social Science-8 53