Indian Mutiny – A mid-19^th century Indian Colonial unmarked silver beaker, Calcutta dated 1858

Of tapering cylindrical form, the front engraved with a commemorative inscription reading “Taken form the bedside of The Rebel Khan Bahardoor after the battle of Bareilly 1858”.

Height – 10.2 cm / 4 inches

Weight – 208 grams / 6.69 ozt

Khan Bahadur Khan Rohilla (1823 – 24 February 1860) was the grandson of Hafiz Rahmat Khan, who was the Nawab of Rohilkhand in Uttar Pradesh. He formed his own government in Bareilly in the 1857 Indian revolt against the British rule. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, Bareilly, too, was captured by the British. Rohilla escaped to Nepal where the Nepalese captured him and turned him over to the British. Khan Bahadur Khan Rohilla was tried, sentenced to death, and hanged in the Kotwali (Police Station) on 24 February 1860.