write the names of freedom fighters of the 1857 revolt
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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 the British occupation of that part of the subcontinent. It began as a revolt of the sepoys of the British East India Company’s army but eventually secured the participation of the masses. The revolt is known by several names: the Sepoy Mutiny (by the British Historians), the Indian Mutiny, the Great Rebellion (by the Indian Historians), the Revolt of 1857, the Indian Insurrection, and the First War of Independence (by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar).
The revolt spread over the entire area from the neighborhood of Patna to the borders of Rajasthan. The main centers of revolt in these regions namely Kanpur, Lucknow, Bareilly, Jhansi, Gwalior, and Arrah in Bihar. Following is a list of important leaders who took part in the revolt from different parts of the country:
Important leader Associated with the Revolt of 1857
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
The revolt of 1857 was an unprecedented event in the history of British rule in India. It united, though in a limited way, many sections of Indian society for a common cause. Though the revolt failed to achieve the desired goal, it sowed the seeds of Indian nationalism