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Nana Sahib
Nana Sahib , b. c.1821, leader in the Indian Mutiny , his real name was Dhundu Pant. The adopted son of the last peshwa (hereditary prime minister) of the Marathas, his request (1853) to the British to grant him the peshwa's title and pension was refused. In the outbreak (June, 1857) of the mutiny ... Read more
Sir Henry Havelock
Sir Henry Havelock , 1795-1857, British general. Entering the army in 1815, he was sent (1823) to India, where he served in the first Burma War (1824-26), the first Afghan War (1839), and the Sikh Wars (1843-49). During the Indian Mutiny , Havelock recaptured (July, 1857) Cawnpore ( Kanpur ) from t... Read more
Indian Mutiny
Indian Mutiny 1857-58, revolt that began with Indian soldiers in the Bengal army of the British East India Company but developed into a widespread uprising against British rule in India. It is also known as the Sepoy Rebellion, sepoys being the native soldiers. Causes of the Mutiny In the... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Cawnpore"

Cawnpore
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History Cawnpore ( Kanpur ) was the scene of a bitter struggle during the Indian mutiny and became a symbol of the violence of that conflict. Its...
Motilal Nehru
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...United Provinces. He attended the government high school in Cawnpore and matriculated at Muir Central College in Allahabad. Though...the examinations as a lawyer. Following an apprenticeship in Cawnpore, he began practice at the High Court in Allahabad in 1886...
Nana Sahib
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...pension was refused. In the outbreak (June, 1857) of the mutiny at Cawnpore ( Kanpur ) his men massacred the British garrison and colony. After...Bibliography: See P. C. Gupta, Nana Sahib and the Rising at Cawnpore (1963).
Havelock, Sir Henry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...commanded the first attempts to reconquer the Ganges valley. However, although winning several victories, he failed to hold Cawnpore or lift the siege of Lucknow . He had to await the arrival of Sir Colin Campbell's army, brought back from China, before...
Sir Henry Havelock
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...first Afghan War (1839), and the Sikh Wars (1843-49). During the Indian Mutiny , Havelock recaptured (July, 1857) Cawnpore ( Kanpur ) from the rebels, but he was too late to save the British population from massacre. In Sept., 1857, he relieved...
Chitpavan Brahman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...ruled what then became part of Bombay Presidency. Nana Saheb, the heir of the peshwa, became from his exile near Kanpur (Cawnpore) one of the important figures in the 1857 rebellion against the British. Under British rule, the Chitpavans quickly took...
Kanpur
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Kanpur ( Cawnpore ) City on the River Ganges, Uttar Pradesh, n India. Kanpur was ceded to the British in 1801, and became a frontier post. During...
Indian mutiny
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...restore the aged Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah, to power. The mutiny spread down the Ganges valley—to Agra, Cawnpore , and Lucknow —and into central India. It encouraged a widespread civil revolt against the institutions of British...
Campbell, Sir Colin, 1st Baron Clyde
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...chief of the Indian army and was principally responsible for putting down the rebellion and relieving the sieges of Lucknow and Cawnpore . He was knighted in 1849 and made a peer in 1858. He was nicknamed ‘Old Khabadar’ (Old Careful) in...
Frederick Sleigh Roberts
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...reputation in India and South Africa and then became the last commander in chief of the British army. Frederick Roberts was born in Cawnpore, India, on Sept. 30, 1832, the son of Gen. Sir Abraham Roberts, a British soldier in Indian service. His family was...

Dictionary entries related to "Cawnpore"

Cawnpore
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Cawnpore earlier variant spelling of Kanpur in northern India, the site of a massacre of British soldiers and European families in July 1857, during the Indian Mutiny.
Sullivan, C. Gardner
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Barker); The Aryan (Hart and Smith); Civilization's Child (Giblyn); The No-Good Guy (Edwards); The Beggar of Cawnpore (Swickard); Not My Sister (Giblyn); The Market of Vain Desire (Barker); The Bugle Call (Barker); Civilization...
Kanpur
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Kanpur a city in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, on the River Ganges, also known as Cawnpore . It was the site of a massacre of British soldiers and European families in July 1857, during the Indian Mutiny.
Havelock, Sir Henry
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...1857 but returned to India after the outbreak of the Indian mutiny . Although winning several victories, he failed to hold Cawnpore or lift the siege of Lucknow . He had to await Sir Colin Campbell's army before success could be achieved. He died of dysentery...
Campbell, Sir Colin, 1st Baron Clyde
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...9); and the Crimean War (1854). On the outbreak of the mutiny in 1857, he was appointed commander‐in‐chief of the Indian army and was principally responsible for relieving the sieges of Lucknow and Cawnpore .
Nana Sahib
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Nana Sahib (or Brahmin Dhundu Panth ) ( c. 1820–59) Hindu leader. On the outbreak of the INDIAN MUTINY in Cawnpore (now Kanpur) (1857), he reluctantly joined the rebels and accepted the surrender of the British garrison under Sir Hugh...
Indian Mutiny
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...former Mogul Emperor Bahadur Shah II to his throne, whereupon the movement spread to LUCKNOW , which was besieged, and to Cawnpore (now Kanpur), where the massacre of the British garrison is believed to have been instigated by Tantia Topi, a Maratha...

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Our Bones Lie Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857
Magazine article from: RUSI Journal; 2/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; OUR BONES LIE SCATTERED: THE CAWNPORE MASSACRES AND THE INDIAN MUTINY OF...valleys of the Ganges and Jumna. Cawnpore was but one of many garrisons strung...Bengal were being overwhelmed. At Cawnpore the garrison was commanded by the...
NITRA team visits Cawnpore Textile mill
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 4/29/2008; 565 words ; Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, April 29 -- THE REVIVAL process of the closed Cawnpore Textile Mill, a subsidiary of the British India Corporation (BIC), seems to be on the cards after a visit of a three-member...
BOOKS: Not all heat and dust
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/14/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...renaissance of Paul Scott and E M Forin Cawnpore (now Kanpur). Her stories shine like...evoked. The Britons who began and ran the Cawnpore cotton and woollen mills emerge through...relieved him of his command included one of Cawnpore's leading businessmen, Sir Thomas...
Obituary: Zoe Yalland
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/6/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...Wilkinson, teacher and historian: born Cawnpore, India, 14 October 1922; married 1944...the kind of history she wrote. Born in Cawnpore, India, the third and penultimate generation...to write the history of the British in Cawnpore in two meticulously researched and beautifully...
Books: Mutineers without bounty
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/31/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...the Black Hole of Calcutta (1757), Cawnpore (1857) and Chillianwallah (1919...book, Andrew Ward retells the story of Cawnpore: how after a siege of the entrenched...force defeated his army and closed in on Cawnpore, Nana had 200 British women and children...
WEEKEND LIFE: I've no more sons to give ..; She had a remarkable life marred by tragedy, including the loss of her three children. But with kids' hospice Rachel House named after her, Lady MacRobert's legacy lives on.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 3/25/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Georgina that the mill was in ... Cawnpore, India. Alexander and Georgina married on Hogmanay 1883 and moved to Cawnpore. By 1888, MacRobert was wealthy...Georgina MacRobert Hospital" in Cawnpore. It was in 1909, four years after...
BLOODLUST OF THE MUTINEERS; A Lottery-funded film on the Indian Mutiny shows the rebels as heroes - and (surprise, surprise) the British as sadists. In fact, the mutineers were ruthless butchers who massacred women, children and even their own countrymen with savage zeal.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 8/27/2005; 700+ words ; ...summer. Horrors like the old well at Cawnpore in north-eastern India, filled with...Later, when the British recaptured Cawnpore and discovered the well, they forced...mutiny spread to the garrison towns of Cawnpore and Lucknow, where British soldiers...
Sad prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 9/21/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...defence of the exposed entrenchment at Cawnpore, where 200 British troops, 70 of...promised them safe conduct out of Cawnpore was the most notorious atrocity of the whole conflict, and `Remember Cawnpore!' became the battle-cry of the...
LAST NIGHT
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/15/1997; ; 700+ words ; "The Cawnpore Massacres" was the sort of programme...the reasons that so many people died in Cawnpore, both in the siege and the massacre...and children taken prisoner after the Cawnpore massacre. Their grave became the site...
Bounty from a mutiny
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 8/17/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...century, a Catholic priest in the city of Cawnpore in the north of British India was called...virgin daughter of the commander of the Cawnpore garrison, General Hugh Massy Wheeler...down with Khan in the Indian quarter of Cawnpore, refusing to contact her surviving family...