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Mangal PandeMangal Pande was a Bengali soldier of the 34th Native Infantry who started a mutiny that more or less started the Indian rebellion of 1857. In March 1857, he attacked his British sergeant and wounded an adjutant. General Hearsay, who almost certainly innaccurately remarked that Pande was in some kind of "religious frenzy," ordered a jemadar to arrest him but the jemadar refused. Mangal Pande then turned the gun against himself and used his foot to try to pull the trigger to shoot himself. He failed and was captured, along with the jemadar he was hanged on 7 April. The whole regiment was dismissed as a collective punishment because it was felt that they would harbour feelings against their superiors after this incident. The other sepoys thought of this as harsh punishment In the fictional novel White Teeth, Mangal Pande was Samad's great grandfather.
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