1857 INDIAN REBELLION BAREILLY GHAZI MUSLIM WARRIORS ~ 1860 Art Print Engraving

Description: CONFLICT WITH THE GHAZEES BEFORE BAREILLY May 6th 1858 Some of the Ghazees came on bravely; and with a determination worthy of a better cause, used their kookrees even when upon the bayonets of the highlanders Artist: unknown ____________ Engraver: unknown NOTE: The title in the box above is also in the white border below this scene. PRINT DATE: This engraving was printed circa 1860; it is not a modern reproduction in any way. PRINT SIZE: Overall print size is 6 1/4 x 9 inches, actual scene size is 4 1/2 by 7 inches. PRINT CONDITION: Condition is excellent. Bright and clean. Blank on reverse. Paper is quality woven rag stock paper. SHIPPING: Buyer to pay shipping, domestic orders receive priority mail, international orders receive regular air mail unless otherwise asked for. Full payment details will be in our email after auction close. We pack properly to protect your item! PRINT DESCRIPTION: During the Indian Rebellion, Bareilly in northern India (in the present day state of Uttar Pradesh) was the site of fierce rebel resistance, led by Khan Bahadur Khan, against British East India Company regiments. On 5 May 1858 Sir Colin Campbell's forces, which included Punjabi infantrymen, joined battle with Khan's army which had come out of the city to engage the enemy. After fierce fighting Khan's men retreated and the British forces took the city. The battle was witnessed by William Simpson, the Times correspondent, who described the mayhem caused by the confrontation in his diary: 'It was a veritable stampedo of men and animals. Elephants were trumpeting shrilly as they thundered over the fields, camels slung along at the utmost of their jogging stride, horse and tats (ponies), women, and children were all pouring in a stream, which converged and tossed in heaps of white and black as it neared the road- an awful panic!' The Indian Rebellion, or the First War of Independence (commonly known as the Indian Mutiny) was sparked in May 1857 by an incident among angered Indian soldiers serving the British East India Company stationed at Meerut. It was swiflty joined by Bengal Infantry regiments and civilians, spreading across north and north east India to include the cities of Delhi, Agra, Kanpur and Lucknow. Simmering resentment at colonial rule formed the backdrop to the Rebellion. The British East India Company's annexation of lands, crippling taxation and religious intolerance were among the many causes. Bareilly (Rohilkhand) was a major centre during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (also known as India's First War of Independence). The Rebellion which began as a mutiny of native soldiers (sepoys) employed by the British East India Company's army, against perceived race based injustices and inequities, on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions which were mainly centred on north central India along the several major river valleys draining the south face of the Himalayas but with local episodes extending both northwest to Peshawar on the north-west frontier with Afghanistan and southeast beyond Delhi. The news of the outbreak of the struggle of independence which started at Meerut reached Bareilly on 14 May 1857. The people rose in revolt, occupied treasury and burnt the records of Kotwali, Khan Bahadur khan, the grandson of Hafiz Rahmat Khan was able to form his own government by appointing Sobha Ram Diwan, Madar Ali Khan and Niyaz Muhammed Khan generals and Hori Lal as paymaster. During the Mutiny of 1857 the Rohillas, though already been disarmed, took a very active part against the English. Khan Badur Khan Rohilla, the grandson of Hafiz Rahmat Khan formed his own government in Bareilly in 1857 Indian revolt against British. During the period troops were raised at Bareilly from 1 June 1857, and tumults at once brook out amongst the population in the city, while the surrounding villages remained prey to the rapacity and extortion of the rival Zamindars. The Joint Magistrate was forced to flee to Nainital. The mutineers of city nominally admitted the authority of Khan Bahadur Khan Rohilla, the self-declared Nawab of Bareilly. British order was restored on 13 May 1858 by the British force lent by Commander Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde of 9th Regiment of Foot of British Army with the help of Captain William George Drummond Stewart of 93rd (Sutherland) Highlanders of the British Army, after winning the Bareilly battle. Some of the mutineers were captured and sentenced to death.[25] When the Indian Rebellion of 1857 failed Bareilly, too, was subjugated. Khan Bahadur Khan was sentenced to death and hanged in the Kotwali on 24 February 1860. Communal hatred led to ugly communal riots in many parts of U.P. The green flag was hoisted and Muslims in Bareilly, Bijnor, Moradabad, and other places the Muslims shouted for the revival of Muslim kingdom. During the First War of Indian Independence in 1857, Khan Bhadur Khan issued silver coins from Bareilly as an independent ruler. These coins are a novelty as far as the numismatist is concerned. The main conflict occurred largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region. The rebellion posed a considerable threat to British East Indian Company power in that region, and it was contained only with the fall of Gwalior on 20 June 1858. Some regard the rebellion as the first of several movements over ninety years to achieve independence, which was finally achieved in 1947. THIS IS AN ACTUAL ENGRAVING PRINTED IN THE 1860s! A GREAT SCENE FROM A BATTLE OR KEY MILITARY EVENT WHICH BEGAN IN MAY 1857 AND IS KNOWN VARIOUSLY AS THE INDIAN MUTINY, THE SEPOY REVOLT, THE INDIAN REBELLION AND THE FIRST WAR OF INDEPENDENCE!

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