Parveen Kumar An illustrious chapter of lesser known and unacknowledged sacrifice as part of India’s first War of Independence in 1857 remained uninterred in Ajnala, where Britishers exterminated mercilessly 282 soldiers unarmed, surrendered and unheard. Moved by the indomitable courage of Mangal Pandey in 1857 and ignited throughout India by uprising in May in Meerut,.