Abstract
During 1857-58, at many places in the Punjab, the people fought bravely
for the independence of their country. There occurred many events of resistance. It
is a fact that in the Punjab, the War was not on that large scale as it was in the
Central and Northern India. Similarly it is wrong to assert that Punjab did not take
part in the war, or it only supported the British. Karl Marx has rightly pointed out
that the Punjab is declared to be quiet, but at the same time we are informed that,
at Ferozepur, on the 13th of June, military executions had taken place, while
Vaughan’s Corps─5th Punjab Infantry- is praised for having behaved admirably in
pursuit of the 55th Native Infantry. This, it must be confessed, is a very queer sort
of quiet.1 So we see that like other areas, in the Punjab, too, there were murders,
incendiaries, conspiracies, disloyalty, disarming, battles, executions, pursuits,
panics and treacheries.2 But as the authorities in the province were fully prepared
to crush the resistance, so the freedom-fighters in this province could not succeed.
In the Punjab, the spirit of the War was forcibly kept down
Turab-ul-Hassan Sargana. (2016) The British Response to War of Independence in the Punjab, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 53, Issue 2.
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