Meghar Singh Sakarwar or Meghar Singh (1820-1860) was a Zamindar from

Gahmar Gahmar is a village in India, located near the Ganges river in the Ghazipur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The village is 38 km from Ghazipur. The village has two post offices, 2 UBI, 1 SBI, 1 HDFC Bank & more than 10 ATM, Publ ...

Village in

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district of present day Uttar Pradesh. He belonged to the

Sakarwar Sikarwar is a Suryavanshi gotra. Sikarwar dynasty is found around Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh's Morena Bhind Gwalior, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh district Agra and Ghazipur. Villages Jajou, Basai and Ayela in Kheragarh tehsil of Agra district are very anc ...

clan of

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. Meghar Singh participated in the rebellion of 1857 against

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supporting the rebel soldiers under

Babu Amar Singh Babu Amar Singh was a revolutionary in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the brother of Babu Kunwar Singh, the zamindar of Jagdishpur. Early life Amar Singh was the second son of Sahebzada Singh born much after his older brother. He was describe ...

Role in the 1857 rebellion

On 6 June 1858, Amar Singh and his troops of 2000 sepoys and 500 ''sowars'' arrived in the village of

which is situated near the border with Bihar. The

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rebels from this particular region under the leadership of Meghar Singh, wanted assistance from Amar Singh and a letter for alliance was sent from the village requesting his help. Amar Singh accepted this letter of request. In return, Meghar Singh personally rewarded Babu Amar Singh with a ''nazrana'' or gift worth Rs 20,000. They exchanged supplies including arms aid and Amar Singh left from Gahmar village on 10 June 1858. One of the reasons for this alliance were the old marital ties shared between the Sakarwar Rajputs and the Ujjainiya Rajputs. Throughout the rest of the summer of 1858, the rebels kept on adding to its size by including more deserters from army sepoys. They kept the British troops engaged in six parganas of Ghazipur and neighbouring regions along the Ganges and Karamnasa rivers.

Death

By the end of December 1858, rebel forces had faced disintegration under continuous military action against them by British troops. Meghar Singh along with his followers escaped to Nepal but the local rulers didn't gave them refuge. In late 1860, he was arrested and after a trial in court at Benares district was executed.

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{{Reflist 19th-century Indian people People from Uttar Pradesh Indian revolutionaries Revolutionaries of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 Indian independence activists from Uttar Pradesh 1820 births 1860 deaths