The Story of India: Pakistan and North India

The Residency Cemetery

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• The Residency Cemetery, Lucknow
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• The 'Mutiny' or 'First War of Independence' (depending on your point of view), had no more poignant location for the British than the site of 'The Residency' in Lucknow.
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• Built in 1800 for the British Resident by the local Nawab, it was where some 1,300 British residents of Lucknow remained under siege, during the uprising of Indian troops against their British officers in 1857.

Lasting 87 days, the siege ended in defeat and the death of 2,000 people (including many Indians who had sided with the British) mostly from starvation and disease. The British eventually recaptured Lucknow, buried their dead in the Residency grounds and kept the Union Jack flying, night and day for the remaining 90 years of their rule.