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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 at Cawnpore ( Kanpur ) his men massacred the British garrison and colony. After suppression of the rebellion, he escaped to Nepal, where he probably died.

Bibliography: See P. C. Gupta, Nana Sahib and the Rising at Cawnpore (1963).

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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 Wheeler, promising safe conduct to its people. A reluctant recruit to the Mutiny, he subsequently fled to Nepal and his fate is uncertain, but it is likely that he died in the jungle.

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