Sah Mal Explained

Chaudhary Sah Mal Singh Tomar (also known as Shah Mal Singh) (1797 — 18 July 1857) born in a Jat family in Bijrol village was a rebel at the time of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, based out of the village of Baraut, Uttar Pradesh.^{[1] [2]} He led the Jats of Baraut in rebellion against the East India Company.^[3]

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 Jat formation broke, and were attacked on the flank by mounted troops. Hand-to-hand combat ensued, during which Sah Mal attained martyrdom. ^[4]

Further reading

• Book: Bhadra, Gautam . Gautam Bhadra . Guha . Ranajit . Spivak . Gayatri Chakravorty . Ranajit Guha . Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak . Selected Subaltern Studies . 1988 . Oxford University Press . New York . 978-0-19-505289-3 . 130–145 . https://books.google.com/books?id=JEjsQbxIOC0C&pg=PA130 . Four Rebels of Eighteen-Fifty-Seven.
• Book: Stokes, Eric . Eric Thomas Stokes . Bayly . C. A. . Christopher Bayly . The Peasant Armed: The Indian Revolt of 1857 . 1986 . . Oxford . 978-0-19-821570-7 . 161–165, 168 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Crispin Bates. Senior Lecturer Modern South Asian History Centre for South Asian Sudies Crispin Bates. Subalterns and Raj: South Asia Since 1600. 16 September 2013. Routledge. 978-1-134-51375-8. 76.
2. Book: District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. 1904.
3. Book: Henry George Keene. Fifty-Seven: Some Account of the Administration in Indian Districts During the Revolt of the punjab Airforce . 1883. W.H. Allen. 29–.
4. Book: District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. 1904. 178–.