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Remembering the fallen - Indians killed during the rebellion
November 7Asghari Begum - she died because of the practice generally employed by the British during the skirmishes where whole villages were burned down! She was also the mother of a rebel leader so she needed extra punishment.
Bhaktawari, born in 1819 in Bakhara was hanged on the gallow.
I have shown you the pictures of the gallow where four people at a time were hanged. It is a very troubling picture and unfortunately the scene has been repeated often. I will not show it again but the smoke that you see in the picture is coming from the canons used blow up the sepoys.
Tags: sepoy mutiny, indian uprising, 1857 mutiny india, asghari begum, bakhtawari, martyrs 1857 mutiny, first indian rebellion
Author Sepoy Sunny Kalara
Thanks for putting real names of the people who were killed in the 1857 mutiny. I have seen similar list for each and every British that was killed but never for Indian counter parts.
These seem like regular people who participated in the uprising. We don’t honor them as much as we should
I agree with Ratnam. It’s all about who gets to write history. Thank you for adding a little evenness to the mutiny account.
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