Sah Mal

Raja Shahmal Singh Tomar (also known as Shah Mal) (1797 — 18 July 1857) born in a Hindu Jat family[1] in Bijrol village was a rebel at the time of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, based out of the village of Baraut, Uttar Pradesh.[2][3]: 209  He led the rebels of Baraut in rebellion against the East India Company.[4]

In June 1857, Sah Mal Singh 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 formation broke, and were attacked on the flank by mounted troops. Hand-to-hand combat ensued, during which Sah Mal attained martyrdom.[5]

References

1. Duthie, J. F.; Fuller, Bampfylde (1882). Field and garden crops of the North-western Provinces and Oudh. Roorkee: Printed at the Thomason Civil Engineering College Press. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.79059.
2. Crispin Bates; Senior Lecturer Modern South Asian History Centre for South Asian Sudies Crispin Bates (16 September 2013). Subalterns and Raj: South Asia Since 1600. Routledge. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-134-51375-8.
3. District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. 1904.
4. 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–.
5. 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. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 130–145. ISBN 978-0-19-505289-3.
• Stokes, Eric (1986). Bayly, C. A. (ed.). The Peasant Armed: The Indian Revolt of 1857. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 161–165, 168. ISBN 978-0-19-821570-7.