Nana Sahib

Nana Sahib, the name under which Dundhu Panth, adopted son of the ex-peshwa of the Mahrattas, became known as the leader of the Indian Mutiny in 1857. Born about 1821, the son of a Brahmin in the Deccan, and educated as a Hindu nobleman, he was bitterly disappointed that when the peshwa died in 1851 the latter's pension was not continued to himself; and, industrious in fanning discontent with the English rule, on the outbreak of the Mutiny he was proclaimed peshwa, and was responsible for the massacres at Cawnpore (q.v., and see INDIA). After the suppression of the rebellion he escaped into Nepal. The date of his death is not known.