Kadam Singh was a leader of a group of
Gurjars
who fought against the
British East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...
during the
Indian Rebellion of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against Company rule in India, the rule of the East India Company, British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the The Crown, British ...
. During the rebellion, he was the
Raja
Raja (; from , IAST ') is a noble or royal Sanskrit title historically used by some Indian subcontinent, Indian rulers and monarchs and highest-ranking nobles. The title was historically used in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
T ...
(King) of
Parikshitgarh and
Mawana in
Meerut district
Meerut District () is one of the Districts of Uttar Pradesh, districts of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and a part of Delhi, with the city of Meerut as the district headquarters. Meerut District is also a part of the Meerut division, Meer ...
.
References
Indian rebels
People from Meerut district
Revolutionaries of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
19th-century Indian people
Indian independence activists from Uttar Pradesh
History of Meerut
Year of birth missing
1857 deaths
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