# Shankar Shah
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{{Infobox royalty
| image =ShankarShah.jpg
| caption = Statue of Shankar Shah in Jabalpur
| reign =
| predecessor =
| succession = Titular king of [Garha-Mandla](/source/Garha_Kingdom)
| successor =
| dynasty = [Garha Kingdom dynasty](/source/Garha_Kingdom)
| issue = Kunwar Raghunath Shah
}}
'''Shankar Shah''' was the titular king of [Garha Kingdom](/source/Garha_Kingdom), which was situated in the Indian region of Gondwana. He led an uprising against the British in [Jubbulpore](/source/Jabalpur), and was put to death along with his son.[{{cite book |title=Indian Revolutionaries 1757-1961 (Vol-1): A Comprehensive Study, 1757-1961: A Comprehensive Study, 1757-1961 |date=1 January 1999 |publisher=Prabhat Prakashan |isbn=978-81-87100-16-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1UggIjEuBaAC&dq=Shankar+Shah&pg=PA229 |language=en}}] His son's name was Kunwar Raghunath Shah.
==Uprising==
During the [Revolt of 1857](/source/Revolt_of_1857), when other revolutionaries were fighting against the British, Shankar Shah, the aged titular king of [Garh-Mandla](/source/Garha_Kingdom) was living on a pension from the British in [Jabalpur](/source/Jabalpur).[{{cite book |last1=Chatterton |first1=Eyre |title=The Story Of Gondwana |date=8 January 2021 |publisher=Read Books Ltd |isbn=978-1-5287-6963-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z7UTEAAAQBAJ&dq=Sangram+Shah&pg=PT23 |language=en}}] He took up arms and according to the English, "hatched a plot to foully murder the English residents of Jubbulpore".[{{cite web |title=अमर बलिदानी महाराजा शंकर शाह और राजकुमार रघुनाथ शाह / बलिदान दिवस – 18 सितम्बर 1857 {{!}} VSKgujarat |url=https://www.vskgujarat.com/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE-%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0-%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9-%E0%A4%94%E0%A4%B0-%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%81/ |date=17 September 2022}}]
The [52nd regiment of Bengal Native Infantry](/source/Bengal_Native_Infantry) was called to put down the rebellion in [Jabalpur](/source/Jabalpur), but the injustice of the execution of Shankar Shah and Raghunath Shah convinced them to mutiny instead.[{{cite book |last1=Malleson |first1=George Bruce |title=History of the Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858: Commencing from the Close of the Second Volume of Sir John Kaye's History of the Sepoy War |date=1880 |publisher=Allen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1tPeu1NCXJEC&dq=Shankar+Shah&pg=PA103 |language=en}}][{{cite book|title=Quarterly Army List of Her Majesty's British Forces on the Bengal Establishment|date=1859|publisher=R C Lepage & Co.|location=Calcutta}}]
==Death==
The aged Shankar Shah, his son Raghunath Shah along with thirteen other followers were arrested and jailed in the prison at the cantonment, accused of "hatching a plot to foully murder the English residents of Jubbulpore".[{{cite book |last1=Gupta |first1=Gautam |title=1857 THE UPRISING |date=2008 |publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting |isbn=978-81-230-2299-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e5jcDQAAQBAJ&dq=Shankar+Shah&pg=PT229 |language=en}}]
Even though no incriminating evidence was found against them, the British blew up Shankar Shah along with his son, Kunwar Raghunath Shah with a cannon mouth on 18 September 1857 in a crime of provoking an uprising through their patriotic poems.[{{cite book |last1=Debī |first1=Mahāśvetā |title=The Queen of Jhansi |date=2000 |publisher=Seagull Books |isbn=978-81-7046-175-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6oNjAAAAMAAJ&q=Shankar+Shah |language=en}}]