Centenary of Indian Rebellion of 1857
Complete Set of 2 nos of commemorative postage stamps on the 100 years of the Indian Mutiny against British East India Company rule :
Issued by India
Issued on Aug 15, 1957
Type : Stamps, Postal Used
Colour : Single colour each
Denomination : 15 & 90 naya paisa
[…] the storm centers were spearheaded by Nana Saheb, Diwan Azimullah, Tantia Tope, Kunwar Singh and Rani Laxmi Bai. The big battles between the British and the rebels took place mainly in the region between the […]
[…] in suppressing the revolt. Though the colonial rulers dismissively dubbed it as the ‘Sepoy Mutiny‘, implying that it was merely an uprising of the disgruntled sepoys, the central character of […]