Jhansi

Jhansi, a fortified town in Gwalior state, Central India. During the Mutiny of 1857 the native garrison murdered all the Europeans. In the following April the place was recovered by Sir Hugh Rose. The town, till 1861 in the British North-west Provinces, was in that year made over to Gwalior. Pop. 28,000.—Close beside it, in the British district of Jhansi, is the civil station and military cantonment of Jhansi Naoabad. Pop. 3000.—The district of Jhansi begins just outside the native fortress of Jhansi, and is part of the division of Allahabad in the North-west Provinces. Area, 1640 sq. m.; pop. (1891) 409,419.