Tantya Tope-A Hero Of Rebellion Movement

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Tantya Tope (1814 - 1859) is also known as Ram Chandra Pandurang. He was a hero and leader in the Indian rebellion movement of 1857.

Tantya Tope was born in at village Yeola in Maharashtra.He was the only son of Pandurang Rao Tope and his wife Rukhmabai, an important noble at the court of the Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao II.

His father shifted his family with the ill-fated Peshwa to Bithur where his son became the most intimate friend of the Peshwa’s adopted son, Nana Dhondu Pant (known as Nana Sahib) and Maharaja Madhav Singhji. Read more

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