<P> Robert Glyn asked Ghulam Yahya to write an account of "craftsmen, the names of tools of manufacture and production and their dress and manners". The most popular trades in and around Bareilly during the 1820s were manufacturing glass, jewellery, glass and lac bangles and gold and silver thread, crimping, bean drying, wire drawing, charpoy weaving, keeping a grocer's shop and selling kebabs . </P> <P> Bareilly was a centre of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 . The rebellion began as a mutiny of native soldiers (sepoys), employed by the British East India Company's army, against race - and religion - based injustices and inequities on 10 May 1857 in Meerut . It expanded into other mutinies and civilian rebellions, primarily in the major north - central Indian river valleys; local episodes extended northwest to Peshawar (on the northwest frontier with Afghanistan) and southeast (beyond Delhi). There were riots in many parts of Uttar Pradesh, and Muslims in Bareilly, Bijnor and Moradabad called for the revival of a Muslim kingdom . </P> <P> The Rohillas actively opposed the British, but were disarmed . Khan Bahadur Khan Rohilla, grandson of Hafiz Rahmat Khan, formed his own government in Bareilly in 1857 and a widespread popular revolt in Awadh, Bundelkhand and Rohilkhand took place . In 1857, Khan Bhadur Khan issued silver coins from Bareilly as an independent ruler . When the rebellion failed, Bareilly was subjugated . Khan Bahadur Khan was sentenced to death, and hanged in the police station on 24 February 1860 . </P> <P> Bareilly Central Jail housed a number of political prisoners during the British Raj, including Yashpal (who married while imprisoned on 7 August 1936 was the first such ceremony in an Indian jail). The rules were changed, preventing future prison marriages . </P>

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