page_title: Bithoor
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bithoor / History
caption_attribution_description: English: N-UP-L143 Mound Bithoor Kanpur This is a photo of ASI monument number&#160; N-UP-L143.
context_page_description: Bithoor or Bithur is a town in Kanpur District, 23.4 kilometres by road north of the centre of Kanpur city, in Uttar Pradesh, India. Bithoor is situated on the right bank of the Ganga, and is a centre of Hindu pilgrimage. According to Hindu mythology, Bithoor is the birthplace of Lord Ram's sons Luv and Kush. Bithoor is also the centre for Revolt of 1857 as Nana Sahib, a popular freedom fighter who was based there. The city is enlisted as a municipality of Kanpur metropolitan area.
context_section_description: Bithoor has been closely associated with the Indian independence movement, especially the Indian Rebellion of 1857. It was at one time home to many of the rebellion's most prominent participants including the Rani of Jhansi, Lakshmi Bai. During the British Raj, Bithur used to be part of Cawnpore district (now Kanpur) in the United Provinces. The last of the Peshwas, Baji Rao II, was banished to Bithur; his adopted son, Nana Sahib, made the town his headquarters. Bithur was captured by General Havelock on 19 July 1857. The town was laid waste by the British who razed Nana Sahib's palace and the temples in the town in retaliation for the brutal killing of over 300 British men, women and children who had been lured out of their defences at Cawnpore with a promise of truce during the Siege of Cawnpore.
  Britishers killed and hanged around 25,000 Bithoor men and women, including children, from 9 to 90 years of age. They hanged the dead bodies from trees so as to spread terror. Bithoor is the only town in the history where so many people were killed for revolting against the British empire. Adding to that India was the only country where the most people sacrificed their lives for the sake of obtaining freedom from British rule.
caption: An old minaret built by the King of Bithoor
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