The Rajas of Rewa, Benares and Chikari being decorated for their loyalty to the English during the Indian Mutiny by Lord Canning at Cawnpore in 1859. Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning, 1812 – 1862 aka The Viscount Canning. English statesman and Governor-General of India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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