Nana Rao Park, Memorial of 1857, Companybagh, Mall road, Kanpur (Kanpur)

India / Uttar Pradesh / Kanpur / Company Bagh chowraha
 park, military, interesting place
NANARAO PISHWA AND INDIAN SEPOYEES REVOLTED AGAINST THE BRITISH IN 1857-THE FIRST WAR OF INDEPENDENCE IN INDIA. Prisoners were housed in Bibighar in this park area. Circular rim in photo is the well and in front of it Tantya Tope the Gurella warrior statue is installed.

Just by the side of well on the branches of an Old Banian Tree 133 freedom fighters were hanged as the inscription erected at the Banian tree site reveals.
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Coordinates:   26°28'15"N   80°21'40"E

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  • No mention of the 200 British women and children slaughtered by butchers and dumped, many still alive, in the Bibighar Well?
  • Tantya Tope the Gurella warrior statue? What next a statue of jihad John
  • This man is a murderer of women and children , why you glorify a dastardly murderer Some of those kids were only 4 years old Please give those victims their due place by renaming this place Shame on you
  • Yes agree, simply appalling. Once there was a beautiful gothic screen and an angel over the well, that still contains the bones of our 206 women and children. Now there is not even a simple marker for this grave, only the gloating bust of the mutineer who oversaw the slaughter of these incredibly brave women and children, who were hacked to death with meat cleavers and tulwar swords on the 15th July 1857. They even renamed the Park after that scoundrel Nana Sahib Rao. During June and July of 1857, the local Indian population swarmed to the banner of the British and gleefully hanged the 133 so called 'Freedom Fighters' for the British. They counted it an honour to dispatch these miscreants who had cause so much misery and destruction in Cawnpore.
  • There is something common among all countries who seek to colonise or attack other countries. That is to pickup one single incident and use it to demonise the opponent. True 200 British women and children died but that incident was use to kill thousands of Indians....yes you would not know about it as its likely that you are reading history written by Brits.
  • Why should they be mentioned? Did you even consider and think what the British did to the Indians? British were invaders! so why should their women and children be mentioned - they were rightfully killed!!
  • When was the original ornate monument destroyed, and by whom?
  • I had hoped for some reconciliation more than just cricket. In this day, we are as brothers and dear sisters too, I hope. And so I made a documentary earlier this year (2017) to try to mend what was broken, but only in a small sense. Please if you might, see Youtube and search "Indian Sepahi Rising 1857 Remembering Cawnpore" Namaskar - Markji
  • Yes of course the British were invaders and Pirates, but they bought much of what India enjoys today. Education, technology, rail, democratic government, agriculture, a common language that unites the broader base of dialects. And so they left and good riddance you say. But you fail to remember your own history, that Muslims under the Shah's were invaders also and although they built Forts and introduced Urdu and Persian, they trashed the poor Hindu's and Sikh's and oppressed the dear people of India. They are still there in vast numbers and although Missionaries bought a form of benevolent Christianity, Islam would happily use the sword to convert if they could, all of India. You forget what suckles on the breast of India, that is also a foreign infant, and still you love it that way and damn the British for ever giving you anything. And so who would you have rather have had as a partner in growing India? Pakistan to the north and within, or UK?
  • The Cawnpore Bibighar Memorial was completely removed by the local Kanpur Indian Nationalist Government in or about 1948, due to disrespect by the local badmash community and relocated in part to All Souls Memorial Church to the east. Local Government then installed a 4 meter high bust of Tantia Tope who orchestrated the destruction of the Cawnpore garrison and ordered the slaughter of the women and children of Bibighar. His work, lead to the terrible reprisals by the British forces on all who they deemed associated with the Cawnpore massacres. One mans broken promise towards protecting the garrison from cruel inhuman destruction, lead to total warfare on Cawnpore and deep hurt that is still festering to this day...
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