{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Use Indian English|date=January 2020}} '''Raja Shahmal Singh Tomar''' (also known as '''Shah Mal''') (1797 — 18 July 1857) born in a Hindu Jat family in Bijrol village was a rebel at the time of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, based out of the village of Baraut, Uttar Pradesh.<ref name="BatesBates2013">{{cite book|author1=Crispin Bates|author2=Senior Lecturer Modern South Asian History Centre for South Asian Sudies Crispin Bates|title=Subalterns and Raj: South Asia Since 1600|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fXjdAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA76|date=16 September 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-51375-8|page=76}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eNxP7M4HRRAC&pg=PA210|year=1904}}</ref>{{rp|209}} He led the people of Baraut in rebellion against the East India Company.<ref name="Keene1883">{{cite book|author=Henry George Keene|title=Fifty-Seven: Some Account of the Administration in Indian Districts During the Revolt of the punjab Airforce |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wj4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA29|year=1883|publisher=W.H. Allen|pages=29–}}</ref>
In June 1857, Sah Mal Singh seized 500 head of cattle, and collected escaped convicts and other locals and formed a force. On 18 July, British forces came under attack as they approached the village of Baraut. A group of fighters led by Sah Mal took up positions in a nearby orchard, and came under pressed attack by a Rifles unit. The formation broke, and were attacked on the flank by mounted troops. Hand-to-hand combat ensued, during which Sah Mal attained martyrdom.<ref>{{cite book|title=District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eNxP7M4HRRAC&pg=PA178|year=1904|pages=178–}}</ref>
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==Further reading== *{{cite book |author=Bhadra, Gautam |author-link=Gautam Bhadra |editor1-last=Guha |editor1-first=Ranajit |editor2-last=Spivak |editor2-first=Gayatri Chakravorty |editor1-link=Ranajit Guha |editor2-link=Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak |title=Selected Subaltern Studies |date=1988 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-19-505289-3 |pages=130–145 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JEjsQbxIOC0C&pg=PA130 |chapter=Four Rebels of Eighteen-Fifty-Seven}} *{{cite book |last=Stokes |first=Eric |author-link=Eric Thomas Stokes |editor-last=Bayly |editor-first=C. A. |editor-link=Christopher Bayly |title=The Peasant Armed: The Indian Revolt of 1857 |year=1986 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-821570-7 |pages=161–165, 168 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I0FuAAAAMAAJ}}
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