1858 in India

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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1858 in India. Act of Parliament 1858

Incumbents[edit]

Charles Canning, Governor-General, afterwards Viceroy

Events[edit]

National income - ₹12,279 million
January – General Sir Hugh Rose begins the Central India campaign; Sir Colin Campbell begins the campaign to recapture Lucknow; trial of Bahadur Shah, King of Delhi, from 27 January^[1]
February – General Rose relieves Saugor; Campbell's Army of Oudh assembles on the Kanpur-Lucknow road to await Jang Bahadur's Gurkha army
March – Lucknow is recaptured on 21 March; Central India campaign continues
April – Battle of the Betwa; the city of Jhansi is stormed and captured (3–6 April); Azamgarh recaptured; advance on Kalpi (25 April); Campbell begins reconquest of Rohilkhand; Koer Singh leads a rising in Bihar; after his defeat he dies of his wounds
May – Battle of Bareilly followed by its recapture; Battle of Kunch; recapture of Jagdispur; reoccupation of Kalpi; Battle of Mohamdi (24 May) and end of resistance in Rohilkhand; rebels begin guerrilla war in the jungle; Tatya Tope and the Rani of Jhansi outside Gwalior
June – Gwalior army deserts to the rebels and Tatya Tope and the Rani of Jhansi seize Gwalior; General Rose marches from the Kalpi to Gwalior arriving on the 16th; next day the battle of Kotah-i-Serai and on the 19th the Battle of Gwalior; Gwalior fortress recaptured; during June guerrilla forces in Oudh, Bihar and along the Nepalese frontier are suppressed
July to December – suppression of guerrilla forces except in Rajputana and Central India
October to November – Bahadur Shah travels from Delhi into exile at Rangoon^[2]
1 November – the end of the British East India Company's rule in India is proclaimed^[3]

Law[edit]

August - Government of India Act 1858

Births[edit]

20 July - Baba Sawan Singh, Second Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (died 2 April 1948).
9 July – Kaikhusrau Jahan, Begum of Bhopal (died 12 May 1930)
7 November – Bipin Chandra Pal (died 1932)
30 November – Jagadish Chandra Bose, physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist and science fiction writer (died 1937).

Deaths[edit]

Rani of Jhansi Lakshmibai, Queen of Jhansi State (d. 18 June at Gwalior, now Madhya Pradesh)

References[edit]

↑ Edwardes (1975), p. 141
↑ Edwardes (1975), p. 143
↑ Edwardes (1975), p. 145

Edwardes, Michael (1975) Red Year. London: Sphere Books; pp. 154–55 (events of the rebellion)

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[1] Edwardes (1975), p. 141

[2] Edwardes (1975), p. 143

[3] Edwardes (1975), p. 145

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