Babu Kunwar Singh |Babu Veer Kunwar Singh| Babu Kunwar Singh
|Nickname||Veer Kunwar Singh| |Died||1858 (aged 80–81)
|Relations||Shabzada Singh(father), Panchratan Devi(mother)|
Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777–1858), one of the leaders of the
Indian Rebellion of 1857 belonged to a royal Ujjaini house of
Jagdispur, currently a part of Bhojpur district, Bihar state,
India. At the age of 80 years, during India’s First War of
Independence (1857), he actively led a select band of armed
soldiers against the troops under the command of the East India
Company. He was the chief organizer of the fight against British
in Bihar. Early life  Indian rebellion of 1857  Kunwar Singh led
the rebellion in Bihar. He assumed command of the soldiers who
had revolted at Danapur on 5th July. Two days later he occupied
Arrah, the district headquarter. Major Vincent Eyre relieved the
town on 3rd August, defeated Kunwar Singh's force and destroyed
Jagdishpur. Kunwar Singh left his ancestral village and reached
Lucknow in December 1857. Ku