Why Tatya Tope was against the British regarding pension?

Hello friends., how are you all. I hope everyone is healthy and having fun. Today we are going to talk about commanding officer Tatya Tope:

• who forbid the sleep of the British
• who is also known as best rebel general in Indian History
• who was very proficient in martial arts.
• who used to round the British in one area and disappear himself.

So let us expand further.

Tatya Tope

Who was Tatya Tope ?

Tatya Tope was born on 1814 in Yeola (Nashik, Maharashtra) to a Maratha Brahmin family. His mother's name was Rukhmabai and father's name was Pandurang Rao. His father Pandurang Rao worked in the court of Bajirao Peshwa. Pandurang was a special man of Bajirao Peshwa.

Bajirao Peshwa lost the war with the British, so Bajirao Peshwa had to leave the Rajpat of Pune and moved to Bithur near Kanpur. Pandurang also came to Bithur with his family along with Bajirao Peshwa. Tatya Tope grew up with Nana Saheb and Manu (Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi) and studied together. Tatya Tope also worked with the East India Company but left because of injustice by the Britishers.

How did Tatya Tope got the name?

Tatya Tope's real name was Ramachandra Pandurang Yevlekar. Later he got the name Tatya Tope. There story behind it was, once he caught an employee of the court for corruption. So Bajirao Peshwa was pleased and made Tatya Tope wear a cap studded with diamonds. From that day he was named Tope and Tatya means leader in Marathi thus Tatya Tope was a skilled general. Hence the name Tatya Tope got from Ramachandra.

Why Tatya Tope was against the British regarding pension?

A new law was introduced in the country by Lord Dalhousie. The rules of the law were that if a king or landlord had no biological children of his own, that king or landlord had to hand over all his property and land property to the East India Company. If a king adopted someone's son as his heir, that too was not accepted.

Similarly, since Bajirao Peshwa also did not have his own son, the British government seized Bajirao Peshwa's property. And as per the decided scheme Bajirao Peshwa was being given pension by the British Government. As long as Bajirao Peshwa was alive, the British government used to give pension to Bajirao Peshwa. But after the death of Bajirao Peshwa, Nana Saheb Peshwa, who was the adopted son of Bajirao Peshwa, was stopped by the British government from giving pension. So Tatya Tope was against the British over pension.

Using what tactics Tatya Tope use to attack Britishers ?

He suddenly used to come out of the hills to attack the British and then suddenly used to get disappear into the hills. The British also used to chase him but he never falled into the hand of the British. Tatya Tope made britishers chased him from the valley of Vidya to the Aravalli mountain chain and killed them as they got tired.

Soldiers searching Tatya Tope

How did Tatya Tope helped Queen Lakshmibai of Jhansi?

There were more than 20,000 soldiers in Tatya Tope's army. Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi sent a message to him for help. As soon as the message was received, he went to help Rani Lakshmibai, because they knew each other from childhood. Tatya Tope along with Rani Lakshmibai invaded Kalpi and conquered it.

Kalpi Invasion

Then they went to Gwalior but their they were defeated. Rani Lakshmibai was killed in the Battle of Gwalior and Tatya Tope escaped. Tatya Tope did not kept his camp at one place, he kept changing his place. In this way he did not fall into the hands of the British.

Who betrayed Tatya Tope?

One day Tatya Tope was resting in the forest of Paron. He was seen resting in the forest by someone and he spoke to King Mansingh of Narwar region. King Mansingh had some enmity with Tatya Tope. So he sent a message to the British that Tatya Tope was in the forest of Paron. The British suddenly attacked Tatya Tope where he was resting. He was suddenly surrounded by the British invasion and was captured by the British as they did not get a chance to fight back and Tatya Tope was hanged at Shivpuri by the British government.

Conclusion:

In this article we saw that Tatya Tope died on 18 April 1859 in Shivpuri. He lived only 45 years. He fought as many as 150 battles and some of them were defeated but he did not gave up. He continued to face the British by building a new army, due to which he is also known as best rebel general of India. He also killed around 10,000 British soldiers. The government also printed postage stamps in memory of Tatya Tope and effigies were also placed on public roads.

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