Transported rebels from NWP & OUDH in 1859

The paper presents a discourse on the castes and religious configuration of the rebels in the rebellion of 1857. Based upon the Judicial-Criminal Proceedings of NWProvinces it discovers the castes on the basis of surnames, and religion, of the rebels transported for life and for various term to the penal settlement of Andaman Islands in the year 1859. The paper also contradicts on the basis of the findings the popular notion that the majority of the rebels comprise upper caste Hindus. As against this the fact established otherwise is that the percentage of Muslims and Dalit-Backward Hindus, having no surnames, was much more than the upper caste Hindus. The names of the muslim rebels are quite distinct but names of the dalit and backward rebels are distinguished on the basis of its being without surnames only. It is difficult to ascertain distinction between dalits and backward castes but it is not difficult to recognise the upper-caste Hindu rebels because of their surnames.