Indore's Yashwantrao Holkar wrecked a British column in Monson's retreat, held off Lake at Bharatpur, and begged India's rulers to unite against the Company — the lonely last stand of Maratha power.
In 1808–09 Velu Thampi, the Dalawa of Travancore, rose against the East India Company, issued the fiery Kundara Proclamation urging the people to drive out the British, and chose death over capture.
Seventy-seven years before Rani Lakshmibai, Velu Nachiyar lost her kingdom to the East India Company, spent eight years in exile building an army, and marched back to retake Sivaganga in 1780.
Veerapandiya Kattabomman, the Poligar chief of Panchalankurichi, refused the East India Company's tax; after the First Polygar War he was betrayed by the Ettappan and hanged at Kayathar in 1799.
At nearly eighty, the Bihar zamindar Kunwar Singh led the 1857 revolt, fought a year-long guerrilla war against the East India Company, and won a final victory at Jagdishpur days before he died.
In 1879 a Pune clerk, Vasudev Balwant Phadke, raised a band of Ramoshis and others, raided treasuries to fund a revolt against British famine misrule, and died in an Aden prison in 1883.
In 1846, more than a decade before 1857, a Kurnool palegar named Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy raised thousands of peasants against the East India Company — and was hanged for it in 1847.
On 13 March 1940 at Caxton Hall, London, Udham Singh shot Michael O'Dwyer — the ex-Governor of Punjab who backed the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre — ending a 21-year wait.
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