Chitra Katha
Mangal PandeyFirst Shot of 1857
On 29 March 1857 at Barrackpore the sepoy of the 34th Bengal Native Infantry attacked his British officers, and was hanged on 8 April.
19 July 1827 – 8 April 1857
Sources for these facts
- G. W. Forrest (ed.), Selections from the Letters, Despatches and other State Papers … 1857–58, Vol. I (1893)
- S. N. Sen, Eighteen Fifty-Seven (1957)
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