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Bookmark or Share- The Massacre at Ajnala, 1857 | INDIAN CULTUREAjnala, in the Amritsar district (Punjab), witnessed a brutal massacre of the Indian sipahis during the First War of Indian Independence in 1857. The sipahis, who were of the 26th Native Infantry, stationed in Mian Mir, Lahore, were disarmed on May 13, 1857, following outbreaks across the army. But on July 30, they broke out into rebellion.
- New genetic proof links 246 Indian soldiers killed in Punjab’s Ajnala ...Latest DNA-based evidence confirm the human remains found dumped in an abandoned well in the Ajnala town of Punjab’s Amritsar belonged to 246 young Indian soldiers who were brutally killed after they revolted against the British during the 1857 Indian uprising and belonged to the Gangetic plains, researchers said Thursday.
- Ajnala Massacre of 1857 and its Rediscovery - CivilsdailyAjnala Massacre. Buried Tragedy: 282 soldiers of the 26th Native Bengal Infantry Regiment met a brutal fate during the 1857 uprising, drowned in a well by the British East India Company. Discovery of Location: Cooper’s book provided clues that helped locate the 1857 Kallianwala Martyrs’ Well beneath the Gurdwara Singh Sabha in Ajnala.
- Ajnala Massacre: When An Urban Legend Became A Reality - PeepulTreePUBLISHED 21 June 2021. BOOKMARK. On the morning of 28th February 2014, a local historian resurrected an urban legend when the skeletal remains of 282 Indian sepoys tumbled out of an old well at Ajnala on the outskirts of Amritsar in Punjab. The soldiers had been massacred while fleeing the British during the Revolt of 1857.
- New research backs old proof: Ajnala skeletons are of Indian soldiers ...The nearly-250 human skeletons found dumped in an abandoned well in the Ajnala town of Punjab’s Amritsar in 2014 were of Indian soldiers killed during the uprising of 1857 and not of those murdered during the Partition in 1947, fresh scientific evidence has suggested.
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