Monument erected at Cawnpore at the Site of the Bibighar Well. (Image via Leiden University)
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began on May 10th with a small-scale mutiny of sepoys in the town of Meerut, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Sepoys were the native, Indian soldiers who served in the army of the British East India Company. This initial rebellion against British rule sparked similar uprisings throughout India. Amongst these, none had such horrifyingly tragic results as the June 1857 sepoy mutiny in the town of Cawnpore (now Kanpur), which culminated with the senseless, mass killing of hundreds of British women and children who had been confined inside a small house known as the Bibighar.
(*Warning: This article contains some graphic details of the 1857 Bibighar Massacre and aftermath. If such details might disturb you, I encourage you to skip this post.)
Major General Sir Hugh Wheeler was the British commander at Cawnpore at the time of the mutiny. When the Sepoys besieged the town, he expected…
Source: The Bibighar Massacre: The Darkest Days of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 | Mimi Matthews
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A tragic consequence of colonial expansion and exploitation. Dark days indeed.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Certainly so.
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