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'''Mahua Dabar''' was a small town in [[Basti district]] of [[Awadh]] in modern [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]] (south of Basti, not to be confused with the surviving community of the same name near Gaur, north-west of Basti). This town was destroyed by the [[East India Company|British Raj]] during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]].<ref name=TI1>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/leisure/found-raj-razed-town/cid/518617 | title=Found: Raj-razed town | date=8 December 2008 | newspaper=The Telegraph | location=India | accessdate=24 February 2020 }}</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
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In March–April during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]], the inhabitants of Mahua Dabar intercepted a boat carrying six [[British Raj|British]] soldiers. These soldiers were surrounded and killed by the people of Mahua Dabar. On 20 June 1857 the British [[12th Cavalry|12th Irregular Horse Cavalry]] surrounded the town, destroyed almost every building, and according to local legend [[War crime|slaughtered]] every inhabitant. The town was razed to the ground and only farming was allowed. The [[Tillage|tilling]] of the land removed all ruins of the destroyed town. Mahua Dabar, a town of 5,000 people, completely disappeared from history and geography.<ref name=TI1 /><br />
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In 1994, Mohammad Abdul Latif Ansari, the great-grandson of one of the survivors that managed to escape Mahua Dabar before the British encirclement of the town started researching the location of his ancestral destroyed town. The-then [[Basti district]] [[magistrate]], R.N. Tripathi created a committee of historians from the [[University of Lucknow]]; and they found an 1831 map after 13 years of research which showed the location of the Mahua Dabar town.<ref>[http://www.archaeologyonline.net/artifacts/lost-textile-village.html Lost Textile Village Back on UP Map]</ref> All the maps after [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|1857]] showed the area as farmland.<ref name=TI1/><br />
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On 3 July 2011, [[Jagdambika Pal]] and other members of [[Lok Sabha]], [[lower house]] of the [[Parliament of India]], opened [[Commemorative plaque]] at Mahua Dabar.<ref>[http://mahuadabar.blogspot.ca/2011/07/shri-jagdambika-pal-members-of.html Mahua Dabar commemorative plaque]</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.pastpresented.ukart.com/mahuadabar/mahuadabar-history.htm Compilation of historical source material about Mahua Dabar]<br />
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