NANA SAHIB
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V19,
Page 160
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
NANA SAHIB
, the common designation of Dandu Panth, an adopted son of the ex- peshwa of the Mahrattas, Baji Rao, who took a leading part in the great Indian Mutiny, and was proclaimed peshwa by the mutineers
.
Nana Sahib had a grievance against the British government because they refused to continue to him the pension of eight lakhs of rupees (8o,000) which was promised to Baji Rao by Sir John Malcolm on his surrender in 1818
.
This pension, however, was only intended to be a life See also: - GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
to Baji Rao himself
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For this refusal the Nana bore the British a lifelong grudge, which he washed out in the blood of women and children in the massacres at Cawnpore
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In 1859, when the remnants of the rebels disappeared into Nepal, the Nana was among the fugitives
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His death was reported some See also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
afterwards, but his real fate remains obscure
.
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