The mother of both children was a sister of one of the Peshwa's wives. Lacking sons, Baji Rao adopted Nana Saheb and his younger brother in 1827. Nana's father, a well-educated Deccani Brahmin, had travelled with his family from the Western Ghats to become a court official of the former Peshwa at Bithoor. Nana was born on as Nana Govind Dhondu Pant, to Narayan Bhat and Ganga Bai.Īfter the Maratha defeat in the Third Maratha War, the East India Company had exiled Peshwa Baji Rao II to Bithoor ( near Kanpur), where he maintained a large establishment paid for in part out of a British pension.
He went to the Nepal Hills in 1859, where he is thought to have died. He later disappeared, after his forces were defeated by a British force that recaptured Kanpur.
He forced the British garrison in Kanpur to surrender, then murdered the survivors, gaining control of Kanpur for a few days. The Company's refusal to continue the pension after his father's death, as well as what he perceived as high-handed policies, led him to join the rebellion. As the adopted son of the exiled Marathi Brahmin King Peshwa Baji Rao II, Nana Saheb believed that he was entitled to a pension from the East India Company, but the underlying contractual issues are rather murky. Nana Saheb Peshwa II ( – 24 September 1859), born as Dhondu Pant, was an Indian Peshwa of the Maratha empire, aristocrat and fighter, who led the rebellion in Kanpur ( Cawnpore) during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Bayabai, Peshwa Bajirao III, Peshwa Sanjeevrao Bhau
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