These 85 Indian soldiers started the 1857 Revolt

On 24 April 1857, Colonel G.M.C Smith of the 3rd Regiment, Light Cavalry, at Meerut asked his troops to load the cartridges in Enfield rifles.

85 out of the 90 Indian troops of the Regiment declined to receive the cartridges on account of the usage of beef or pig fat in those. All 85 Indian soldiers were sentenced to prison and their case was forwarded to Major General Hewit.

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We are publishing the names of all these 85 Indian soldiers who defied the English command and thus triggered the first national war of Independence from Meerut.

Havildar

1. Mataa-Deen

Naiks:

1. Sheikh Peer Ali
2. Ameer Qudrat Ali
3. Sheikh Hasan ud-Deen
4. Sheikh Noor Muhammad 

Sepoys:

1. Sheetal Singh
2. Jehangir Khan 
3. Meer Mosim Ali
4. Ali Noor Khan
5. Meer Husain Bakhsh
6. Muttra Singh
7. Narain Singh
8. Lal Singh
9. Sewdeen Singh
10. Sheikh Husain Bakhsh
11. Sahibdad Khan
12. Bishan Singh
13. Baldeo Singh
14. Sheikh Nandoo
15. Nawab Khan
16. Sheikh Ramzan Ali
17. Ali Mohammad Khan
18. Makhan Singh 
19. Durga Singh 
20. Nasurullah Begh
21. Meerahib Khan 
22. Durga Singh (2nd)
23. Nabi Bakhsh Khan
24. Jurakhan Singh 
25. Nadju Khan
26. Jurakhan Singh (2nd)
27. Abdullah Khan
28. Ehsan Khan
29. Zabardast Khan
30. Murtaza Khan 
31. Burjuar Singh
32. Azimullah Khan 
33. Azimullah Khan (2nd)
34. Kalla Khan 
35. Sheikh Sadullah
36. Salar Bakhsh Khan
37. Sheikh Rahat Ali
38. Dwarka Singh 
39. Kalka Singh 
40. Raghubir Singh
41. Baldeo Singh 
42. Darshan Singh 
43. Imdad Husain 
44. Peer Khan 
45. Moti Singh 
46. Sheikh Fazal Imam
47. Sewa Singh 
48. Heera Singh 
49. Murad Sher Khan
50. Sheikh Aram Ali
51. Kashi Singh 
52. Ashraf Ali Khan 
53. Qadardad Khan
54. Sheikh Rustam
55. Bhagwan Singh 
56. Meer Imdad Ali
57. Shiv Baksh Singh 
58. Lakshman Singh
59. Sheikh Imam Bakhsh
60. Usman Khan 
61. Maqsood Ali Khan
62. Sheikh Ghazi Bakhsh
63. Sheikh Ommaid Ali
64. Abdul Wahab Khan
65. Ram Sahai Singh
66. Parna Ali Khan 
67. Lakshman Dubey
68. Ramswaran Singh
69. Sheikh Azad Ali
70. Shiv Singh
71. Sheetal Singh
72. Mohan Singh 
73. Vilayat Ali Khan 
74. Sheikh Muhammad Ewaz
75. Indar Singh 
76. Fateh Khan 
77. Maiku Singh 
78. Sheikh Qasim Ali
79. Ramcharan Singh 
80. Daryao Singh 

• The list of Indian soldiers is an indication of Hindu-Muslim unity during the war of Independence.