ABSTRACT
Mewat requires a focused narrative. In history, justice has not been done to the Mewattis, though they were the first to rise against the British and the last to submit to them. Mirza Ghalib described the situation as, ‘In the land of Sohna and Nuh, the Mewattis have created such a disturbance that one can imagine that the mad have broken the chain’. The direct beneficiary of this fight was the British who could maintain their presence in the town and their lines of communication through Mewat. The Mewatti leaders, who had gone to Delhi at the early stage of rebellion, were in contact with Raja Nahar Singh of Ballabgarh, because he had cordial relations with the Meos. Kale Khan Mewatti and Ali Hasan Khan Mewatti of village Raisina, who were artillery officers at the Kashmiri Gate of Delhi, too had come after the fall of that city.
