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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Nana    
First Name(s)  Sahib    
Birth Year  1820 ?    
Death Year  1859 ?    
Entry  The chief rebel leader in the mutiny, whose barbarous cruelty and treachery have never been forgotten : his real name was Dundupant, of Bithur, near Cawnpur : the adopted son of Baji Rao (q.v.), the ex-Peshwa, who died in Dec. 1852. His claim to the continuation of Baji Rao's annual pension of 8 lakhs was fully considered and rejected, but he maintained friendly relations with, and showed hospitality to, the English residents at Cawnpur. He was allowed a retinue of all arms. He aimed at restoring the Mahratta Empire and proclaimed himself Peshwa. In the mutiny he attacked Sir Hugh Wheeler's entrenchments at Cawnpur, and, on the latter' s surrender, treacherously ordered the massarce of Europeans, men, women and children, on the Ganges, on June 27, and again on July 15. He was defeated at Bithur by Havelock on July 16, 1857, when he fled. He was in action again later, and continued to instigate hostilities : until Sir Colin Campbell drove him into Nipal at the end of 1858. Government offered a reward of a lakh of rupees for his capture, but he escaped, probably in the Nipal jungles, and was never caught. He is supposed to have died about 1859.     
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