{"id":353,"date":"2024-10-16T10:56:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T09:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/history-at-cardiff\/?p=353"},"modified":"2024-09-16T17:57:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T16:57:37","slug":"whos-that-man-wales-empire-and-a-painting-in-glamorgan-building-pwy-ywr-dyn-hwn-cymru-yr-ymerodraeth-a-darlun-yn-adeilad-morgannwg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/history-at-cardiff\/whos-that-man-wales-empire-and-a-painting-in-glamorgan-building-pwy-ywr-dyn-hwn-cymru-yr-ymerodraeth-a-darlun-yn-adeilad-morgannwg\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s that man? Wales, Empire and a painting in \u2018Glamorgan Building\u2019 \/ Pwy yw\u2019r dyn hwn? Cymru, yr Ymerodraeth a darlun yn \u2018Adeilad Morgannwg\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em>In this post, <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.cardiff.ac.uk\/staff\/loefflerm\">Marion L\u00f6ffler<\/a>, Reader in West History, talks about a painting and her historical detective work to find the story behind the figure in Indian dress.<\/em><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"post-361 media-361\" class=\"image align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/history-at-cardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/632\/2024\/09\/SW_CUNIV_77-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption\">Compton, Charles; Banquet Given by Marylebone Reformers; Cardiff University; http:\/\/www.artuk.org\/artworks\/banquet-given-by-marylebone-reformers-159202<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1997, Cardiff University bought Cardiff County Hall, built in 1912 and now known as Glamorgan Building. The building came with the oil painting \u2018Banquet Given by Marylebone Reformers, December 1<sup>st<\/sup> 1847\u2019 by Charles Compton (1828\u20131884), which now hangs in its grand \u2018Committee Room 1\u2019. An explanatory bronze plaque explains that it was \u2018Deposited by the Council of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire\u2019, and names seven men, all central to aspects of Victorian Welsh culture, economy and politics. It was assumed that future Welsh viewers would be keen to identify them.<\/p>\n<p>Entertaining the men assembled for the dinner is Ellis Roberts or \u2018Eos Meirion\u2019, Harpist to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Facing him is John Jones or \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/biography.wales\/article\/s-JONE-JOH-1810\">Talhaiarn<\/a>\u2019, multiple eisteddfod winner and poster boy of Welsh romantic poetry, then working for London architectural firm Scott and Moffat. Addressing the banquet is the reformist Whig MP <a href=\"https:\/\/cf-my.sharepoint.com\/personal\/loefflerm_cardiff_ac_uk\/Documents\/Desktop\/Sir%20Benjamin%20Hall\">Sir Benjamin Hall<\/a> of Llanover, husband to prominent cultural patron <a href=\"https:\/\/biography.wales\/article\/s10-HALL-AUG-1802\">Lady Augusta Hall<\/a> and the organiser of the banquet. He is flanked on his left by Lord Dudley Stuart (1837\u20131854), youngest son of the first Marquess of Bute John Stuart, husband of Napoleon Bonaparte\u2019s daughter and MP for Marylebone. To his right sits the linen draper John Williams, the newly elected MP for Macclesfield. On the right-hand side of the painting, arrows point to architect <a href=\"https:\/\/cf-my.sharepoint.com\/personal\/loefflerm_cardiff_ac_uk\/Documents\/Desktop\/John%20Prichard\">John Prichard<\/a>, who restored Llandaff Cathedral, \u2018standing at back\u2019, and \u2018in shadow\u2019 to John Nixon, who hailed from northern England, but became a pioneer of steam coal mining in south Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent in the foreground, however, is a seated figure who provides a much-needed splash of colour in a sea of black-suited men. Wearing a red silk stole \u2013 formal Indian elite attire \u2013over his suit jacket, and a green turban, he sits comfortably, a smile inviting us to know him. I have always asked myself who this mystery man was and how he came to be in a painting celebrating Welsh and Whig political successes at the centre of the Empire. Curiosity turned into detective work when I attended a workshop on \u2018Decolonising Glamorgan Building\u2019 in November 2023 and attempted to explain the painting to non-historians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Since Sir Benjamin Hall is central to the dinner and the image, my first thoughts turned to two Indian visitors to his home Llanover Court and the Cymreigyddion Eisteddfod celebrations held between 1837 and 1853, because Sir Benjamin and Lady Augusta Hall were among their main sponsors. Thanks to Lady Llanover\u2019s close links with the Prussian ambassador to Queen Victoria\u2019s court Christian von Bunsen, the couple\u2019s homes in Llanover and London attracted international scholars, diplomats and nobility from Europe and the British Empire. In 1842, Lady Llanover only secured a visit from the nephew of Zamindar Dwarkanauth Tagore (1795\u20131846), founder of the Calcutta Union bank and of the first Indian-British joint company \u2018Carr, Tagore and Company\u2019, but was delighted to welcome the man himself in 1845. Zamindar Dwarkanauth Tagore had first visited Britain three years earlier. Queen Victoria had noted that he spoke \u2018very good English\u2019 and was a \u2018very intelligent, interesting man\u2019, while the \u2018Court and Ton\u2019 column of the <em>Illustrated London News<\/em> obsessively reported on this \u2018Indian prince-banker\u2019. When Tagore visited Wales in 1845, speeches and poetry competitions similarly celebrated him as a \u2018Hindustani Prince\u2019 who united the \u2018Himalayan borderland\u2019 of the British Empire with its western extreme under the sign of their beloved Queen Victoria. The <em>Illustrated London News<\/em>, fascinated by eisteddfod proceedings in Wales depicted the Welsh as harpists in druidic garb and Tagore as an exotic figure at the centre of festivities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"post-357 media-357\" class=\"image align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/history-at-cardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/632\/2024\/09\/ILN.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption\">Illustrated London News, 25 October 1845<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The connection between Dwarkanauth Tagore and Sir Benjamin Hall, one of \u2018Reformers\u2019 mentioned on the plaque, MP for Marylebone from 1837\u20131859, and lynchpin of an international hub linking south Wales to Victoria\u2019s court and the imperial parliament appeared obvious. There was but one problem. Tagore had died by the time the dinner was held. An obituary and portrait of the \u2018Hindoo of powerful mind and princely soul\u2019 had appeared in the <em>Illustrated London News<\/em> on 8 August 1846, and since the banquet in the painting took place on 1 December 1847, he could not have attended. It was back to the drawing board for me, and detective work that has yielded a perhaps even more stirring story.<\/p>\n<p>Searching for reports of the dinner produced some disappointing finds at first. As the image below indicates, The <em>Satirist or Censor of the Times<\/em> called the banquet a \u2018coterie of <em>Taffies<\/em>, <em>Marrowbone<\/em> \u201cwestrymen\u201d and a junta of electors\u2019, satirising the successes of Welsh self-made men by mocking the Welsh of Benjamin Hall\u2019s toast, and by alluding to John Williams being \u2018in trade\u2019, rather than living of inherited money.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"post-363 media-363\" class=\"image align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/history-at-cardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/632\/2024\/09\/Satire.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption\">Satirist or Censor of the Times, 5 December 1847<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The search yielded only one factual report. The <em>Norfolk News<\/em> of 4 December 1847 carried a short article which also listed some of those who had attended. Last on the list was a man the paper called \u2018Runjo Bapogee\u2019. The connection between Benjamin Hall and the Indian attendee of the banquet was not cultural, but political. The mystery man was Sardar (General) Rango Bapuji Gupte. He was in England to campaign on behalf of Pratap Singh Bhonsle, the last Chatrapati (Ruler) of the Maratha Empire. Having surrendered his territories after the third Anglo-Maratha War, Pratap Bhonsle was reduced to the status of Raja of Satara under the East India Company. He fell victim to further political campaign against him, which resulted in his deposition and exile in 1839. The East India Company replaced him with his younger brother Shahaji Bhonsle, who was judged easier to control.<\/p>\n<p>Sardar Rango Bapuji Gupte spent fourteen years in London pursuing a diplomatic campaign of parliamentary petitioning an lobbying for the re-instatement of Pratap Bhonsle, which brought him into close contact with reformist Whig MPs, such as Hall and Dudley. His campaign ended when both Pratap and Shahaji Bhonsle died within months of each other in 1848. In the absence of heirs recognised under British law, their territories \u2018fell back\u2019 to the East India Company. Rango Bapuji Gupte returned to India in the early 1850s, where he is said to have masterminded the Indian Uprising of 1857. Escaping arrest on 5 July 1857, he disappeared, a romantic mythical figure in the history of the Indian independence movement.<\/p>\n<p>Rango Bapuji Gupte pensively looks at us from his place at this banquet given by prominent Welsh politicians and attended by the harpists and poets representing Welsh national culture. Like other contemporary representations of dignitaries from India and other parts of the Empire, the young English artist casts him as an exotic figure, set apart from all around him and peripheral to the action in the picture. In the history of Satara and of the Indian independence movement, Rango Bapuji Gupte is central, though. The Char Bhinti memorial which overlooks Satara city in Maharashtra state commemorates his name alongside those of his fellow freedom fighters of 1857.<\/p>\n<p>Rango Bapuji Gupte, then, creates a direct link between Cardiff University\u2019s Glamorgan Building and the living memory of those fighting for Indian independence. He speaks to us more than 125 years after the banquet he attended, and hopefully enjoyed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"post-365 media-365\" class=\"image align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/history-at-cardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/632\/2024\/09\/1024px-Char_Bhinti_Memorial11-Satara-Maharashtra.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption\">Char Bhinti Memorial Satara, Maharashtra.jpg (c) (\u0938\u0941\u092c\u094b\u0927 \u0915\u0941\u0932\u0915\u0930\u094d\u0923\u0940, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.cardiff.ac.uk\/staff\/loefflerm\">Marion L\u00f6ffler<\/a>, School of History Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Pwy yw\u2019r dyn hwn? Cymru, yr Ymerodraeth a darlun yn \u2018Adeilad Morgannwg\u2019 <\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"post-361 media-361\" class=\"image align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/history-at-cardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/632\/2024\/09\/SW_CUNIV_77-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Compton, Charles; Banquet Given by Marylebone Reformers; Cardiff University; http:\/\/www.artuk.org\/artworks\/banquet-given-by-marylebone-reformers-159202<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ym 1997, prynwyd gan Brifysgol Caerdydd adeilad a adnabyddir nawr fel \u2018Adeilad Morgannwg\u2019 ac a adeiladwyd yn Neuadd Cyngor Caerdydd ym 1912. Daeth yr adeilad \u00e2 darlun olew mawr, \u2018Banquet Given by Marylebone Reformers, December 1<sup>st<\/sup> 1847\u2019, gan Charles Compton (1828\u20131884). Erbyn hyn, mae\u2019r llun yn addurno\u2019r siambr foethus \u2018Ystafell Pwyllgor 1\u2019. Esbonia plac efydd ei fod wedi gosod yno gan \u2018Council of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire\u2019, gan enwi saith dyn yn y llun, pob un yn ganolog i ddiwylliant, economi neu wleidyddiaeth Cymru Oes Victoria. Tybiwyd y byddai Cymry\u2019r dyfodol yn awyddus i\u2019w hadwaen.<\/p>\n<p>Adlonnir y boneddigion yn y wledd gan Ellis Roberts (\u2018Eos Meirion\u2019) telynor i\u2019w Mawrhydi Tywysog Cymru. Yn nes ato ac yn ei wynebu mae John Jones ((\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/bywgraffiadur.cymru\/article\/c-JONE-JOH-1810\">Talhaiarn<\/a>\u2019)), enillydd sawl gystadleuaeth eisteddfodol ac eilun darllenwyr barddoniaeth Gymraeg rhamantus. Roedd ar y pryd yn gweithio i gwmni penseiri \u2018Scott and Moffat\u2019 yn Llundain. Yn ganolog ac yn traddodi araith, saif <a href=\"https:\/\/bywgraffiadur.cymru\/article\/c11-HALL-BEN-1802\">Sir Benjamin Hall<\/a> o Lanofer, AS a Chwig y blaid ddiwygio. Yn \u0175r i\u2019r noddwr diwylliannol pwysig <a href=\"https:\/\/bywgraffiadur.cymru\/article\/c10-HALL-AUG-1802\">Arglwyddes Augusta Hall<\/a>, fe oedd wedi trefnu\u2019r dathliad. I\u2019r chwith iddo eistedda\u2019r Arglwydd Dudley Stuart (1837\u20131854), g\u0175r merch Napoleon Bonaparte, mab ifancaf John Stuart, Marchwas cyntaf Bute, ac AS dros Marylebone. I\u2019r dde iddo, gwelir y gwerthwr llieiniau John Williams, sydd newydd ei ethol yn AS dros Macclesfield. Ar ochr dde y llun, ceir arwyddion yn pwyntio at <a href=\"https:\/\/bywgraffiadur.cymru\/article\/c-PRIC-JOH-1817\">John Prichard<\/a>, y pensaer a ail-adeiladodd Eglwys Gadeiriol Llandaf \u2018standing at back\u2019; ac \u2018in shadow\u2019, John Nixon, a ddaeth o ogledd Lloegr i droi yn arloeswr cloddi glo ager yn ne Cymru.<\/p>\n<p>Ond yn amlwg iawn ar flaen y llun, gwelwn ddyn di-enw, sy\u2019n tasgu fflachiad prin o liw i\u2019r m\u00f4r o siwtiau du\u2019r ciniawyr eraill. Mae\u2019n gwisgo st\u00f4l sidan coch \u2013 arwydd ei fod yn perthyn i rengoedd bonheddig yr India \u2013 dros ei siaced siwt, a phen dorch gwyrdd. Ymddengys yn gyfforddus yn eistedd yno, ei w\u00ean fach yn ein gwahodd i\u2019w nabod. Ers talwm, rwyf wedi rhyfeddu pwy oedd y dirgel-dyn hwn, a sut y daeth i fod mewn cinio a darlun sy\u2019n dathlu llwyddiannau Cymry blaenllaw yng nghanol yr Ymerodraeth. Trodd y chwilfrydedd yn waith ditectif wedi imi fynychu gweithdy ar \u2018Decolonising Glamorgan Building\u2019 ym mis Tachwedd 2023 a cheisio esbonio\u2019r darlun i bobl nad oeddent yn\u00a0 haneswyr.<\/p>\n<p>Gan fod yr Arglwydd Benjamin Hall yn ganolog i\u2019r cinio a\u2019r delwedd, naturiol oedd dechrau drwy ystyried dau ymwelydd o\u2019r India i Lys Llanofer ac Eisteddfodau\u2019r Fenni, a gynhaliwyd rhwng 1837 a 1853. Bu\u2019r Arglwydd Benjamin a\u2019r Arglwyddes Augusta o Lanofer yn noddwyr blaenllaw i\u2019r eisteddfodau hyn. Diolch i gysylltiadau agos Arglwyddes Llanofer \u00e2 llysgennad Prwsia i Lys y Frenhines Victoria, Christian von Bunsen, croesawyd i gartrefi\u2019r teulu yn Llanofer a Llundain ysgolheigion, diplomyddion a boneddigion lu o Ewrop a\u2019r Ymerodraeth Brydeinig. Ym 1842, llwyddodd Arglwyddes Llanofer i ddenu nai\u00a0 Zamindar Dwarkanauth Tagore (1795\u20131846), sylfaenydd banc y Calcutta Union a \u2018Carr, Tagore and Company\u2019, y cwmni Indiaidd-Brydeinig cyntaf. Ym 1845, bu wrth ei bodd i groesawu\u2019r dyn mawr ei hun. Roedd Zamindar Dwarkanauth Tagore wedi ymweld \u00e2 Phrydain am y tro cyntaf tair blynedd ynghynt. Nodai\u2019r Frenhines Victoria ei fod yn siarad \u2018very good English\u2019 ac yn ddyn deallusol a diddorol. Roedd colofn \u2018Court and Ton\u2019 yr <em>Illustrated London News<\/em> yn adrodd yn aml ar yr \u2018Indian prince-banker\u2019 hwn. Tebyg roedd dathliadau yn ystod ei ymweliad \u00e2 Llanofer ym 1845. Fe\u2019i ddisgrifiwyd yn \u2018Dywysog Hindwstani\u2019, un oedd wedi uno\u2019r \u2018Himalaya\u2019, pegwn dwyreiniol yr Ymerodraeth Brydeinig \u00e2\u2019i \u2018gorllewin pell\u2019 o dan arwydd yr annwyl Frenhines Victoria. I\u2019w darllenwyr arluniodd yr <em>Illustrated London News<\/em> yr eisteddfod a fynychwyd gan Tagore fel g\u0175yl ddieithr-ddwyreiniol, y telynorion yn ymddangos megis derwyddon, a ffigwr ecsotig Tagore yn ganolbwynt i\u2019r cyfan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"post-357 media-357\" class=\"image align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/history-at-cardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/632\/2024\/09\/ILN.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption\">Illustrated London News, 25 October 1845<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tybiais, felly, fod y cysylltiad rhwng Zamindar Dwarkanath Tagore \u00e2\u2019r Arglwydd Benjamin Hall yn glir, gan fod yr olaf yn un o\u2019r mawrion ar y plac, yn AS dros Marylebone o 1837\u20131859, ac yn ganolbwynt rhwydwaith rhyngwladol a gyfunai de Cymru \u00e2 llys Victoria a\u2019r senedd Ymerodrol. Gwaetha\u2019r modd, bu farw Tagore cyn y cinio yn y llun yn Adeilad Morgannwg. Ymddangosodd ysgrif goffa a llun o\u2019r \u2018Hindoo of powerful mind and princely soul\u2019 yn yr <em>Illustrated London News<\/em> ar 8 Awst 1846. Gan fod y wledd wedi ei chynnal ar 1 Rhagfyr 1847, doedd dim ffordd y gallai fod wedi mynychu. Bu\u2019n rhaid imi ddechrau o\u2019r dechrau, ond darganfyddais hanes sydd yn ysgogi\u2019r meddwl hyd yn oed ymhellach.<\/p>\n<p>Profodd chwilio am adroddiadau ar y wledd yn siomedig i ddechrau. Fel y dengys y llun islaw, dychanwyd yr achlysur megis \u2018coterie of <em>Taffies<\/em>, <em>Marrowbone<\/em> \u201cwestrymen\u201d and junta of electors\u2019 gan y <em>Satirist or Censor of the Times<\/em>, gan gymryd y cyfle i fychanu llwyddiannau\u2019r Cymry a dynion \u2018hunanwneuthuredig\u2019 drwy ddynwared Cymraeg yr Arglwydd Benjamin Hall a chyfeirio at y ffaith fod AS John Williams \u2018in trade\u2019, yn hytrach na\u2019n byw ar arian y cyn-deidiau.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"post-363 media-363\" class=\"image align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/history-at-cardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/632\/2024\/09\/Satire.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption\">Satirist or Censor of the Times, 5 December 1847<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ond bues yn ffodus i ddod o hyd i un adroddiad ffeithiol. Ar 4 Rhagfyr 1847, cyhoeddodd y <em>Norfolk News<\/em> erthygl fer gan restru rhai o\u2019r sawl a fynychodd y cinio. Yn olaf, rhestrwyd dyn a elwid \u2018Runjo Bapogee\u2019 gan y papur. Gwleidyddiaeth yn hytrach na diwylliant a gysylltai ef \u00e2\u2019r Arglwydd Benjamin Hall, AS. Sardar (Cadfridog) Rango Bapuji Gupte, oedd y dirgel-ddyn, yn Lloegr i ymgyrchu dros adferiad Pratap Singh Bhonsle, Chatrapati (Rheolwr) olaf Ymerodraeth y Maratha. Yn dilyn y trydydd Rhyfel rhwng Cwmni Dwyrain India (yr <em>East India Company<\/em>) a Maratha, lleihawyd statws Pratap Bhonsle i un Raja Satara o dan goruchwyliaeth Cwmni Dwyrain India. Cynhaliwyd ymgyrchoedd gwleidyddol yn ei erbyn nes\u00a0 ei ddiorseddu a\u2019i alltudio ym 1839. Yn ei le, dyrchafwyd ei frawd iau Shahaji Bhonsle gan Gwmni Dwyrain India, gan fod yntau yn ufudd i\u2019w dymuniadau.<\/p>\n<p>Treuliodd y Sardar Rango Bapuji Gupte bedair blwyddyn ar ddeg yn Llundain ar ymgyrch diplomyddol o ddeisebu a lob\u00efo\u2019r senedd er mwyn adfer Pratap Bhonsle i\u2019r orsedd, a ddaeth ag ef i gysylltiad ag aelodau seneddol Chwigaidd megis Hall a Dudley. Daeth yr ymgyrch i ben pan fu farw\u2019r ddau, Pratap a Shahaji Bhonsle, o fewn mewn misoedd i\u2019w gilydd ym 1848. Yn absenoldeb etifedd cydnabyddedig o dan y gyfraith Brydeinig \u2018adferwyd\u2019 eu tiroedd i Gwmni Dwyrain India. Dychwelodd Rango Bapuji Gupte i\u2019r India yn y 1850au cynnar. Yn \u00f4l hanes y wlad hon, ef oedd un o brif-gynllunwyr Rhyfel Annibyniaeth yr India 1857. Pan geisiwyd ei arestio ar 5 Gorffennaf 1857, diflannodd, gan droi\u2019n ffigwr chwedlonol, rhamantus yn hanes y frwydr dros annibyniaeth i\u2019r India.<\/p>\n<p>Yma yng Nghaerdydd, edrycha Rango Bapuji Gupte arnom yn feddylgar o hyd o\u2019i safle mewn gwledd a drefnwyd gan wleidyddion blaenllaw Cymru ac a fynychwyd gan delynorion a beirdd a gynrychiolai diwylliant cenedlaethol Cymru. Yn debyg i gynrychiolaethau cyfoes eraill o ymwelwyr dyrchafedig o\u2019r India a rhannau o\u2019r Ymerodraeth, portreadir ef gan yr arlunydd ifanc Saesneg fel ffigwr ecsotig, ar wah\u00e2n i bawb arall ac yn ymylol i orchestion y sawl sy\u2019n ganolog. Yn hanes ardal Satara a\u2019r mudiad dros annibyniaeth yr India mae\u2019n ganolog, serch hynny. Gwelwn ei enw ochr yn ochr \u00e2 rhai o\u2019i gyd-filwyr ar y gofeb Char Bhinti uwchben dinas Satara yn ardal Maharashtra, sy\u2019n cofio Rhyfel Annibyniaeth 1857.<\/p>\n<p>Mae\u2019r \u2018dirgel-ddyn\u2019 Rango Bapuji Gupte, felly, yn ddolen gyswllt uniongyrchol rhwng Adeilad Morgannwg Prifysgol Caerdydd a\u2019r cof byw am y sawl a frwydrodd dros annibyniaeth i\u2019r India. Mae\u2019n siarad \u00e2 ni mwy na 125 mlynedd wedi\u2019r gwledd, lle cafodd gyfle, gobeithio, i ymlacio am awr yng nghanol ymgyrch gwleidyddol taer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"post-365 media-365\" class=\"image align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/history-at-cardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/632\/2024\/09\/1024px-Char_Bhinti_Memorial11-Satara-Maharashtra.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption\">Char Bhinti Memorial Satara, Maharashtra.jpg (c) (\u0938\u0941\u092c\u094b\u0927 \u0915\u0941\u0932\u0915\u0930\u094d\u0923\u0940, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.cardiff.ac.uk\/staff\/loefflerm\">Marion L\u00f6ffler<\/a>, Ysgol Hanes, Archaeoleg a Chrefydd, Prifysgol Caerdydd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this post, Marion L\u00f6ffler, Reader in West History, talks about a painting and her historical detective work to find the story behind the figure in Indian dress. 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