The lost years of Nana Saheb: Where did he go after fleeing India in 1859?

Did the Peshwa land up in Nepal, or was he living in Bhutan in the court of Druk Desi Jigme Namgyal? Good friends In Bhutan, oral stories circulate about how Nana Saheb fled Nepal and took refuge in the court of Druk Desi Jigme Namgyal, the father of Bhutan’s first king. Highlights The Bhutanese believe that Nana Saheb spent at least six years in their country after fleeing India During the Duar War, Pasha Raja or Nana Saheb provided Desi Jigme Namgyal, the father of Bhutan’s first king, crucial information about the British India outpost and the army base While several books have been written on Nana Saheb’s Nepal sojourn in 1859, the period between 1859 and 1872 is mostly a blank Whatever the stories, it is a fact that when Nana Saheb arrived in Bhutan, the Desi welcomed him and looked after him and they became good friends The backstory Nana Saheb was the adopted son and heir of Baji Rao II, who was the 13th and last Peshwa of the Maratha empire. “It is said that Pasha Raja wore gho, ate doma, and spoke the national language.” When Nana Saheb’s brother contracted the fever and died in the Terai, Jung Bahadur received the ashes in Kathmandu, believing them to be the last remains of Nana Saheb, and deputed his priests to carry out the final rites in a grand manner before writing to the British Resident, Colonel Ramsay, about Nana’s death. He was very bitter against our government.” It is possible that Eden had been misled to believe that Nana Saheb was dead and the Indian man in Bhutan was a servant of Nepal’s Begum Kashi.