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Hyderabad in 1956 as follow: ". on Sunday last week after 4 am (it was discerned to be 1st April 1860) the Collector received information that Ramji and other rioters were sheltering near a mountain at a distance of 15 kuroh (from Nirmal) and four kuroh from the road. The place where the enemy had camped was not easily accessible. The position was that two persons could hardly pass side by side and even daily necessities like food and water were not available there. With a sense of loyalty, he (the Collector) proceeded with the available force. Suffering untold hardships he came to where the hostile forces were put up at mid-day and attacked them. At first, firing was exchanged for some time which was later on followed by sword-fighting. The number of persons killed on the enemy's side was not known. The rebels consisted of about 200 Rohillas and 300 Gonds and Deccanees. Many of the rebels after being wounded took to their heels. Thirty dead bodies of the rebel Rohillas and others were found. Some Jamadars of their force identified the dead body of Miyan Saheb Khurd, a chief of the Rohillas, who came from Narayankhed. A Sarkheel of the Gonds, whose name was not known, was also killed in this encounter. A large number of rebels were wounded. At first they thought of hanging down the dead bodies of the Rohillas on trees in the neighbourhood but later the plan was abandoned lest it might hurt the sentiments of the Rohillas of their force".
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of Nana Saheb Peshwa. This insurrection synchronised with the events happening in north India. A number of soldiers, mainly
Rohillas, who were disbanded from military service in the north, infiltrated into the Deccan. They were soon joined by the disaffected elements. the Gonds under the leadership of Ramji Gond. To suppress the revolt, all possible measures including the marching of contingent troops, calling in of the 47th Regiment N.I. (North India) forming part of the Bellary column and the posting of a detachment of the subsidiary force under Col Roberts at 'Hingolee' were undertaken. For nearly two years, ie, till AD 1860, this uprising of the Rohillas and the Gonds continued."
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Ghoolab Khan, and Najuff Khan, the last of the leaders of banditti. We know of their capture, but nothing more. We require to know of punishments for the sake of example, and we require, whenever that is capital, that it should be inflicted at the city of
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Telangana was an important territory with respect to tribal freedom struggles. As early as 1857, when the Sepoy Mutiny took place, the tribal tracts north of
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