Sah Mal
Raja Shahmal Singh Tomar (also known as Shah Mal) (1797 — 18 July 1857) born in a Hindu family in Bijrol village was a rebel at the time of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, based out of the village of Baraut , Uttar Pradesh.[1][2]: 209 He led the rebels of Baraut in rebellion against the East India Company.[3]
In June 1857, Sah Mal Singh seized 500 head of cattle, and collected escaped convicts and other locals and formed a force. On 18 July, British forces came under attack as they approached the village of Baraut. A group of fighters led by Sah Mal took up positions in a nearby orchard, and came under pressed attack by a Rifles unit. The formation broke, and were attacked on the flank by mounted troops. Hand-to-hand combat ensued, during which Sah Mal attained martyrdom. [4]
References
[edit]- ^ Crispin Bates; Senior Lecturer Modern South Asian History Centre for South Asian Sudies Crispin Bates (16 September 2013). Subalterns and Raj: South Asia Since 1600. Routledge. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-134-51375-8.
- ^ District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. 1904.
- ^ Henry George Keene (1883). Fifty-Seven: Some Account of the Administration in Indian Districts During the Revolt of the punjab Airforce. W.H. Allen. pp. 29–.
- ^ District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. 1904. pp. 178–.
Further reading
[edit]- Bhadra, Gautam (1988). "Four Rebels of Eighteen-Fifty-Seven". In Guha, Ranajit; Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty (eds.). Selected Subaltern Studies. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 130–145. ISBN 978-0-19-505289-3.
- Stokes, Eric (1986). Bayly, C. A. (ed.). The Peasant Armed: The Indian Revolt of 1857. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 161–165, 168. ISBN 978-0-19-821570-7.