Two statues were erected on the Mall Road in 2002 and 2003 to commemorate the Great Uprising of 1857.

Statue 1

The first statue is opposite Allahabad Bank building on the Mall. The statue was designed by taking out two figures from two original hand drawings of the Great Uprising. One is that of an Indian sepoy of the East India Company army in uniform and the other is that an Indian civilian. They stand together and the design of statue describes the true nature of the Uprising, it being not just a simple mutiny but an uprising of all the people of large tracts of India.

There are three inscriptions on the pedestal of the statue –

On the east face are the names of 85 sepoys of the 3rd Native Light Cavalry Regimens who refused to use the disputed cartridges on the 24th of April, 1857, leading to the uprising.

On the south face is an inscription in Devnagari originally written by Dr. K. D. Sharma describing the essence of the Great Uprising of 1857.

On the west face are the names of some of the villages around Meerut which were destroyed for having participated in the Uprising in 1857.

This statue was inaugurated with the 20 stone markers on the 8th of April, 2002.

In 2014, Pashchim UP Subarea added memorials on both sides of this statue in memory of Indian soldiers of this region who gave the ultimate sacrifice for the honour of their motherland from 1947 onwards. Therefore, presently it is a memorial to the freedom fighters of the War of Independence 1857 and also a memorial to the fallen soldier.

Statue 2

This was erected on the main crossing of Mall Road and Roorkee Road. Five figures of an original hand-drawing of the Great Uprising which depicted a scene from one of the battles fought at Kanpur were used to design the statue. The statue depicts Indian cavalry attacking British infantry and was inaugurated in January 2003.

This was erected on the main crossing of Mall Road and Roorkee Road. Five figures of an original hand-drawing of the Great Uprising which depicted a scene from one of the battles fought at Kanpur were used to design the statue. The statue depicts Indian cavalry attacking British infantry and was inaugurated in January 2003.