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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Baji Rao II
- Born
- Dhondu Pant , ( 1824-05-19 ) 19 May 1824, Bithur , Cawnpore , Ceded Provinces , British India , (present-day Bithoor , Kanpur Nagar district , Uttar Pradesh , India)
- Died
- ( 1859-09-24 ) 24 September 1859 (aged 35) (disputed), Kathmandu , Nepal
- Parent s
- Narayan Bhat (father) , Ganga Bai (mother)
- Relatives
- Baji Rao II (adoptive father & uncle)
- Battles wars
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 Siege of Cawnpore Satichaura massacre Bibighar massacre
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nana
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Maratha Empire
- Place of birth
- Bithoor
- Place of death
- India
- Father
- Baji Rao II
- Occupation
- freedom fighter
- Languages spoken
- Marathi
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Conflict
- Indian Mutiny of 1857
- Image
- Nana Sahib, watercolour on ivory, c. 1857.png
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- date of birth
- 1820-00-00
- date of death
- 1857-07-00
- Commons category
- Nana Sahib
- date of disappearance
- 1857-07-00
- different from
- Nana Fadnavis
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Encyclopedic overview
Nana Saheb Peshwa II (19 May 1824 – after 1857), born Nana Govind Dhondu Pant, was an Indian aristocrat and fighter who led the Siege of Cawnpore (Kanpur) during Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the East India Company. As the adopted son of the exiled Maratha Peshwa, Baji Rao II, Nana Saheb believed he was entitled to a pension from the Company. However, after being denied recognition under Lord Dalhousie's doctrine of lapse, he joined the 1857 rebellion and took charge of the rebels in Kanpur. He forced the British garrison in Kanpur to surrender and subsequently ordered the killing of the survivors, briefly gaining control of the city. After the British recaptured Kanpur, Nana Saheb disappeared, and conflicting accounts surround his later life and death.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nana Sahib” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.