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The archaeologist Vishnu Shridhar Wakankar noticed the shelters in the Vindhyan foothills of Raisen district in 1957 and began the study of their paintings, made in red and white ochre and showing hunters, dancers, animals and later riders with weapons.

The core of Stupa 1 at Sanchi, in Raisen district, was raised in the third century BCE in Ashoka's reign, with the Ashokan pillar carrying the schism edict beside it.

Built in the reign of Vidyadhara, it is the tallest and most fully worked out of the Khajuraho temples, with the complete sequence of ardhamandapa, mandapa, antarala and garbhagriha, a cluster of subsidiary shikharas rising towards the main one, and bands of sculpture over its walls.

The Chandelas of Jejakabhukti built the Khajuraho group in Chhatarpur district between about 950 and 1050 CE, and the names of their rulers are tied to individual temples: Yashovarman to the Lakshmana temple and Vidyadhara to the Kandariya Mahadeva.

Lajpat Rai started his legal practice at Hisar in 1886, took part in the municipal and Arya Samaj work of the town and in early Congress organisation there, and only later moved to Lahore, from where he became a national figure.

The large cantonment at Ambala, on the road from Delhi to the hills, reported restiveness among its sepoys in May 1857, and some accounts place signs of it even before the outbreak at Meerut on 10 May.

He began the weekly Haryana Tilak in 1923 to give the national movement in the Haryana districts a newspaper of its own, since the region's news was otherwise carried only in the Lahore papers.

Chhotu Ram helped found the Unionist Party of Punjab with Fazl-i-Husain, a party of landholders and peasants across community lines, and as a minister he carried measures for the indebted cultivator, among them the Punjab Relief of Indebtedness Act of 1934.

Chhotu Ram, born at Garhi Sampla in Rohtak district on 24 November 1881 and honoured as Deenbandhu, started the Urdu weekly Jat Gazette in 1916 to carry the case of the indebted peasant, and he used it for the rest of his career alongside his work in the Punjab legislature…

Letters recovered after the fall of Delhi showed that the two men of Hansi had written to the Mughal court in support of the revolt, and they were tried and hanged there in January 1858, their property confiscated.

Raja Nahar Singh of Ballabgarh, in the present Faridabad district, sided with the rebels of Delhi, and after the city was retaken he was arrested, tried and hanged in January 1858 at Chandni Chowk in Delhi, his state being confiscated.

In 1858 the government took the Delhi territory out of the North-Western Provinces and attached it to Punjab, partly as a punishment for the region's part in the revolt and partly because Punjab's administration had stayed loyal and effective.

After the defeat at Nasibpur, Rao Tula Ram left India to seek foreign help against the British, travelling through Iran and Central Asia, and he died at Kabul on 23 September 1863 while still trying to build an alliance.

Nasibpur lies next to Narnaul in the south of present-day Haryana, and it was there that Rao Tula Ram's forces, with Rao Kishan Singh and contingents from the rebel side, met the British column.

The ruler of Rewari in the Ahirwal country took charge of the administration there in 1857, raised troops, cast cannon at Rampura and sent help to the rebel government in Delhi.

After Gandhi recorded the statements of thousands of cultivators and sat on the official enquiry committee, the government accepted that the indigo obligation and the illegal cesses had to go, and the Act of 1918 abolished tinkathia and ordered the refund of a part of the money extorted from tenants.

The Kols of Chotanagpur rose when their lands were given over to outsiders, called dikus, as farms and leases, and the rising under Buddho Bhagat spread through Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Palamu and Singhbhum before troops put it down.

The rising of 1899 and 1900 forced the administration to look at the loss of tribal land, and the Act of 1908 recognised the khuntkatti right by which Munda families held land collectively, restricted its transfer to outsiders and ended the forced labour known as beth begari.

Jatra Oraon, also called Jatra Bhagat, preached among the Oraons of the Gumla and Ranchi country that they should give up liquor, animal sacrifice and work for landlords, and refuse to pay rent to outsiders.

Bakasht was land that zamindars had taken into their own cultivation after evicting occupancy tenants during the depression, and the Kisan Sabha fought to get it restored to the tenants.