Kota’s historic Dhanteras
The Hindu
When revolutionaries celebrated freedom
Dhanteras is celebrated to pay obeisance to Goddess Lakshmi. But Kota, now known for its coaching institutes, experienced a different Dhanteras in 1857.
Those were the days of India’s First War of Independence. The British East India Company had its military cantonments at Naseerabad, Deoli, Kota, Neemuch (now in Madhya Pradesh), Beawar, Erinoura and Kherwada in Rajasthan.
The revolt started in Naseerabad on May 28, 1857. Kota was calm at that time. Hence, the British authorities decided to send some troops from there to Neemuch in June 1857. Major Burton, the political agent of the Governor General at Kota, went with the contingent.
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