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cat Carnivorous, often solitary and nocturnal mammal of the family Felidae, ranging in size from the Indian tiger (3m, 10ft) to the domestic cat (40cm, 14in). It has specialized teeth and claws for hunting, a keen sense of smell, acute hearing, sensitive vision, and balances well with its long tail. Cats all have fully retractile claws, except for the cheetah which needs greater purchase on the ground to run at high speeds. One of the first animals to be domesticated, cats appear frequently in myth and religion. Order Carnivora.
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MUTINY AND MUTILATION IN THE EMPIRE; Our Bones Are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres And The Indian Mutiny Of 1857 by Andrew Ward (John Murray, [pounds sterling]25).
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 8/10/1996; 700+ words
; ...spoiled, duplicitous, silkily polite Nana Sahib, adopted son of the last Mahratta...without natural issue and spurned Nana Sahib's claims. The disgruntled...Besides, the charming, hospitable Nana Sahib had offered a detachment of...
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Books: Mutineers without bounty
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/31/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...entrenched camp, the Mahratta leader Nana Sahib tricked the exhausted defenders into...his army and closed in on Cawnpore, Nana had 200 British women and children...have been swept into the sea, as Nana Sahib threatened. But the rebellion...
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Having Mangal Pandey for dinner aboard a vintage train.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 9/21/2005; 700+ words
; ...lines of the trains of the 1850's 'Sahib, Sind and Sultan', a restaurant...The train has been named after 'Sahib, Sind and Sultan' the three engines...Tantia Tope Lah Jawab, or from Nana Sahib Ki Pasand (crispy cubes of potato...
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Our Bones are Scattered.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 6/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...by 112 pages of notes. It is a tale of treachery by Nana Sahib and his henchman, Azimullah Khan, of the inept British...slaughter of the garrison on the banks of the Ganges after Nana Sahib had granted them 'safe conduct'. That affair was then...
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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
; ...theme with admirable detachment. The characters of the Nana Sahib, Tantia Topi and Azimullah, long enshrined in British...eighteen nightmare days, surrender was inevitable. Under Nana Sahib's promise of a free passage down-river, Wheeler...
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Reflections on a poignant past
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 4/14/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...sent by the mysterious Col Creighton to be educated as a sahib. It was amusing to see a field full of latterday Kims...tanneries fills the air. It was here that the forces of Nana Sahib of Bithur laid siege to about a thousand British residents...
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Suspicious minds
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 9/8/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...brought carnage to Cawnpore and Lucknow. Even leaders such as Nana Sahib or Mohamed Ali Khan, who realised the civil and political...power might be a mirage and that the seemingly all-powerful sahibs might have feet of clay. That, too, provided a spur. As...
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Sad prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 9/21/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...against the 4,000-strong forces of the treacherous Nana Sahib for three weeks, tortured by the grinding heat and shortage...fearful massacre of 73 women and 124 children after the Nana had promised them safe conduct out of Cawnpore was the...
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Bounty from a mutiny
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 8/17/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...insurrection there. After a ferocious siege most them were massacred following a false armistice from the rebel leader Nana Sahib. Young Margaret herself, it was reported, had been seized by a sowar, an Indian cavalryman, named Nizam Ali Khan...
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Mutiny with no mercy... REVIEW.(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 9/29/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...given the derisive nickname 'Clemency' Canning for insisting on justice, not vengeance. In Cawnpore, the smiling Nana Sahib promised the British safe passage down the Ganges and then fired on their boats. Surviving women and children were slaughtered...
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Nana Sahib
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Nana Sahib , b. c.1821, leader in the Indian Mutiny , his real name was Dhundu...to Nepal, where he probably died. Bibliography: See P. C. Gupta, Nana Sahib and the Rising at Cawnpore (1963).
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Cawnpore
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...besieged for nineteen days, was obliged to surrender to Nana Sahib who, on hearing of the approach of Sir Henry Havelock...left behind proved unable to hold on and Tatya Tope, Nana Sahib's general, effected a reoccupation. It was not until...
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Indian Mutiny
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...civilization, threatened traditional India. In 1853, Nana Sahib , leader of the Marathas, was denied his titles and...June, Cawnpore ( Kanpur ) had fallen to the sepoys of Nana Sahib, and Lucknow was besieged. In repressing the rebellion...
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Kanpur
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Kanpur was a village until its cession to the British in 1801 by the Nawab of Oudh. During the Indian Mutiny (1857), Nana Sahib, whose pension claim had been rejected, slaughtered the entire British garrison, including women and children.
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Lakshmi Bai
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...inexplicably raised his daughter in the manner more customarily associated with sons. Two of her childhood friends were Nana Sahib and Tatya Tope, both of whom were active participants in the Great Rebellion. She learned to ride elephants and horses...
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