Chowna Mein urges Centre to recognise battle in northeast
The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 may not be India’s first war of independence.
The first such war, not recognised by Indian history, took place in 1839 between the Tai Khamti people and the British. The theatre of this war was some 2,400 km east of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh where the mutiny began, Arunachal Pradesh’s Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein said.