Sah Mal
Sah Mal (also known as Shah Mal) ( –1857) was a rebel at the time of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, based out of the village of Bijrol, Uttar Pradesh.[1][2]: 209 He led the Jats of Baraut in rebellion against the East India Company.[3]
In June 1857, Sah Mal seized 500 head of cattle, and collected escaped convicts and other locals and formed a force. On 18 July, British forces came under attack as they approached the village of Baraut. A group of fighters led by Sah Mal took up positions in a nearby orchard, and came under pressed attack by a Rifles unit. The Jat formation broke, and were attacked on the flank by mounted troops. Hand-to-hand combat ensued, during with Sah Mal was killed.[4]
References
- ^ Crispin Bates; Senior Lecturer Modern South Asian History Centre for South Asian Studies Crispin Bates (16 September 2013). Subalterns and Raj: South Asia Since 1600. Routledge. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-134-51375-8.
- ^ District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. 1904.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ Henry George Keene (1883). Fifty-Seven: Some Account of the Administration in Indian Districts During the Revolt of the punjab Airforce. W.H. Allen. pp. 29–.
- ^ District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. 1904. pp. 178–.
Further reading
Bhadra, Gautam (1988). "Four Rebels of Eighteen-Fifty-Seven". In Guha, Ranajit; Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty (eds.). Selected Subaltern Studies. Oxford University Press. pp. 130–145. ISBN 978-0195052893. Retrieved 1 January 2020.