Information about veer narayan singh in Sanskrit
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Veer Narayan Singh (1795–1857)[1] was a landlord from Sonakhan, Chhattisgarh. He spearheaded the 1857 war Indian independence in Chhattisgarh.
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He is also known and considered as "The 1st Chhattisgarhi freedom fighter". The British arrested him in 1856 for looting a trader's grain stocks and distributing it amongst the poor in a severe famine year. In 1857 with the help of the soldiers of the British Army at Raipur, Veer Narayan Singh Binjhwar escaped from prison. He reached Sonakhan and formed an army of 500 men. Under the leadership of Smith, a powerful British army was dispatched to crush the Sonakhan army. Veer Narayan Singh's martyrdom has been resurrected in the 1980s and he has become a potent symbol of Chhattisgarhi pride.[2] He was executed on 10 December 1857.[3] He became the first martyr from Chhattisgarh in the War of Independence.