History: Important leaders Associated with the Revolt of 1857

Place

Leader

Barrackpore

Mangal Pandey

Delhi

Bahadur Shah II, General Bakht Khan

Delhi

Hakim Ahsanullah (Chief advisor to Bahadur Shah II)

Lucknow

Begum Hazrat Mahal, Birjis Qadir, Ahmadullah (advisor of the ex-Nawab of Awadh)

Kanpur

Nana Sahib, Rao Sahib (nephew of Nana), Tantia Tope, Azimullah Khan (advisor of NanaSahib)

Jhansi

Rani Laxmibai

Bihar (Jagdishpur)

Kunwar Singh, Amar Singh

Faizabad

Maulvi Ahmadullah (He declared the Revolt as Jihad against English)

Farrukhabad

Tufzal Hasan Khan

Bijnaur

Mohammad Khan

Muradabad

Abdul Ali Khan

Bareilly

Khan Bahadur Khan

Mandsor

Firoz Shah

Gwalior/Kanpur

Tantia Tope

Assam

Kandapareshwar Singh, Manirama Datta

Orissa

Surendra Shahi, Ujjwal Shahi

Kullu

Raja Pratap Singh

Rajasthan

Jaidayal Singh and Hardayal Singh

Gorakhpur

Gajadhar Singh

Mathura

Sevi Singh, Kadam Singh