Sah Mal

Sah Mal (also known as Shah Mal) ( –1857) was a rebel at the time of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, based out of the village of Bijrol, Uttar Pradesh.[1][2]:209 He led the Jats of Baraut in rebellion against the East India Company.[3]

In June 1857, Sah Mal 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 Jat formation broke, and were attacked on the flank by mounted troops. Hand-to-hand combat ensued, during with Sah Mal was killed.[4]

References
  1. Crispin Bates; Senior Lecturer Modern South Asian History Centre for South Asian Studies Crispin Bates (16 September 2013). Subalterns and Raj: South Asia Since 1600. Routledge. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-134-51375-8.
  2. District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. 1904.
  3. 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–.
  4. 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. Oxford University Press. pp. 130–145. ISBN 978-0195052893. Retrieved 1 January 2020.

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