What were the major nodal centres of the revolt of 1857? who were the original rulers at
those areas and what happened with them that led to them joining the revolt?
Answers
The Revolt of 1857 is also called the Sepoy Mutiny or India's First War of Independence. It was started on 10 May 1857 at Meerut, as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army.
It was a prolonged period of armed uprising as well as rebellions in Northern and Central India against British occupation of that part of the subcontinent .It was not mere a product of Sepoy but was accumulated grievances of the people against the Company’s administration and of their dislike for the foreign regime.
Place
Leader
Barrackpore
Mangal Pandey
Delhi
Bahadur Shah II, General Bakht Khan
Delhi
Hakim Ahsanullah (Chief advisor to Bahadur Shah II)
Lucknow
Begum Hazrat Mahal, Birjis Qadir, Ahmadullah (advisor of the ex-Nawab of Awadh)
Kanpur
Nana Sahib, Rao Sahib (nephew of Nana), Tantia Tope, Azimullah Khan (advisor of Nana Sahib)
Jhansi
Rani Laxmibai
Bihar (Jagdishpur)
Kunwar Singh, Amar Singh
Allahabad and Banaras
Maulvi Liyakat Ali
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