Rango Bāpuji Gupte was an Indian diplomat, freedom fighter, and revolutionary, born into a Marathi “Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu” family. The rulers of Satara were one of the last independent branches of the Maratha Empire. After the British dissolved the state in 1839, ruler Pratapsinh sent Gupte to England to defend the case in front of the British Parliament, where he stayed for 14 years without much success.
On returning to India, he became one of the masterminds behind the Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the 1857 revolt. He met Nanasaheb Peshwe and Tatya Tope and started building armed organizations in Satara, Kolhapur, Sangli, and Belgaon. However, when his plan was exposed, many of the fighters he had recruited were killed, and Gupte went underground.
On 5 July 1857, he went to Thane to attend a religious ceremony at his relative Prabhakar Viththal Gupte’s residence near Jambhali Naka. When British police arrived to arrest him, Gupte escaped in the disguise of an old woman and was never found again. It is said that Gupte lived incognito in the Darwha town in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra. In his memory, Jambhali Naka has been named as Rango Bapuji Chowk. A memorial named ‘Char Bhinti’ in Satara honors Rango Bapuji Gupte.
Rango Bapuji Gupte
(★ – 1857) – (Maharashtra)
Rango Bāpuji Gupte was an Indian diplomat, freedom fighter, and revolutionary, born into a Marathi “Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu” family. The rulers of Satara were one of the last independent branches of the Maratha Empire. After the British dissolved the state in 1839, ruler Pratapsinh sent Gupte to England to defend the case in front of the British Parliament, where he stayed for 14 years without much success.
On returning to India, he became one of the masterminds behind the Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the 1857 revolt. He met Nanasaheb Peshwe and Tatya Tope and started building armed organizations in Satara, Kolhapur, Sangli, and Belgaon. However, when his plan was exposed, many of the fighters he had recruited were killed, and Gupte went underground.
On 5 July 1857, he went to Thane to attend a religious ceremony at his relative Prabhakar Viththal Gupte’s residence near Jambhali Naka. When British police arrived to arrest him, Gupte escaped in the disguise of an old woman and was never found again. It is said that Gupte lived incognito in the Darwha town in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra. In his memory, Jambhali Naka has been named as Rango Bapuji Chowk. A memorial named ‘Char Bhinti’ in Satara honors Rango Bapuji Gupte.
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