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NANA SAHIB

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 160 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAHIB , the See also:common designation of Dandu Panth, an adopted son of the ex-See also:peshwa of the See also:Mahrattas, Baji See also:Rao, who took a leading See also:part in the See also:great See also:Indian See also:Mutiny, and was proclaimed peshwa by the mutineers. Nana Sahib had a grievance against the See also:British See also:government because they refused to continue to him the See also:pension of eight lakhs of rupees (8o,000) which was promised to Baji Rao by See also:Sir See also:John See also:Malcolm on his surrender in 1818. This pension, however, was only intended to be a See also:life See also:grant to Baji Rao himself. For this refusal the Nana See also:bore the British a lifelong grudge, which he washed out in the See also:blood of See also:women and See also:children in the massacres at See also:Cawnpore. In 1859, when the remnants of the rebels disappeared into See also:Nepal, the Nana was among the fugitives. His See also:death was reported some See also:time afterwards, but his real See also:fate remains obscure.

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