The continued suffering for generations of those who fought against the British in 1857 in our part of India is best illustrated by the plight of the descendants of a revolutionary as well as their village Ukhulpura near Meerut. Narpat Singh, a revolutionary of this village, led Rajputs and Ranghars in an attack on Sardhana tehsil and freed his region from British rule for nearly 2 months. He died in a direct confrontation with a British military force which attacked his village on the 22nd of July, 1857. All those who fought with him died in true Rajput tradition. The British then confiscated the property of the village and this was auctioned off as a punishment. His descendants are still very poor and when we visited them on 22-07-2012, they were talking of the poor harvest this year, no rains and other miseries of an Indian farmer. It was a sad day for us ....

On 22 July, 2011, for the first time since 1947, a public program was organised at Ukhulpura in memory of the martyrdom of Narpat Singh. Descendants of other freedom struggle villages (Kranti Gramsi) also came to Ukhulpura to participate in the program.