NANA SAHIB

NANA SAHIB (1824 -1906), real name Dundhu Panth, of Brahman descent, adopted son of the ex-Peshwa of the Mahrattas. He was a freedom fighter of India. He was, according to British version, the instigator, on the outbreak of the Mutiny in 1857, of the massacre of Kanpur.

Indian version of his story narrates him as a hero, while British version claimed that after the death of ex-Peshwa his pension from the British Government was not continued to Nana, which rendered the latter the deadly foe to British rule in India.

British claim is that he had on the outbreak of the Mutiny in question offered his services to a British general, and placed himself at the head of the mutineers. He disappeared from the scene.