Meerut

Meerut, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, was a town where the rebellion of 1857 (the 'Mutiny' or First War of Independence) first broke out. It lies in the western Uttar Pradesh region that was the heartland of the Deobandi movement; the reformer Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi (d. 1880), co-founder of Deoband, came from this region.