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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Campbell,_1st_Baron_Clyde [Colin Campbell|Sir Colin Campbell's]] plan for the pacification of Central India was for separate columns to be formed from the two Presidencies of Bombay and Madras. The Bombay force, under the command of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Rose,_1st_Baron_Strathnairn [Hugh Rose|Gen Sir Hugh Rose]], should march from Mhow to Gwalior and Jhansi, and the Madras force, which was to be led by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Grant Sir Patrick Grant], should march towards Nagpore. These two columns were to act in concert to defeat rebel forces under the command of [http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-582772/Tantia-Topi Tantia Topi[Tatya Tope]]. The major operations of the '''Central India Field Force ''' under Rose and the '''Saugor and Nerbudda Field Force ''' under [http://www.archerfamily.org.uk/bio/whitlock_gc.html Whitlock] lasted for the whole of 1858 and resulted in the destruction of Tantia Tope's army as a significant threat. Other units taking part were the '''Rajputana Field Force ''' under [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101023755/ General Henry Roberts] and the '''Malwa Field Force ''' under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michel_(British_Army_officer) Maj-Gen John Michel].

=== Central India Field Force ===[[Hugh Rose|Maj-Gen Sir Hugh Rose KCB]] commanding<br>

* Bombay Sappers & Miners Detachment<br>

*24th Bombay NIInfantry*Battery No 1 Troop, Horse Artillery

===Saugor and Nerbudda Field Force===

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_India_Campaign_(1858) Central India Campaign] Wikipedia<br>*''1857: A Brief Political and Military Analysis'' by Maj (Retd) Agha Humayun Amin [http://web.archive.org/web/20060618070003/defencejournal.com/2000/feb/central-indian.htm Chapter Seven: "The Central India Campaign"] Article by Maj Agha Humayun Amin defencejournal.com (Pakistan) February 2000 Issue, now archived. <br> ==== Historical books on-line online ====*''Selections from the letters, despatches and other state papers preserved in the Military Department of the Government of India, 1857-58'' edited by George W. Forrest, Director of Records of the Government of India. [http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromle04forruoft#page/n5/mode/2up Volume IV] [Central India] 1912 Archive.org:''A History of the Indian Mutiny; reviewed and illustrated from original documents'' by G W Forrest. [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindianm03forr#page/n9/mode/2up Volume III], [Central India]. 1912 Archive.org*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vbpXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''A Sortie from Fort St. George; being a Narrative of the Services of the Madras Troops under Major-General Whitlock ... during the War in Central India ... 1858-59'']. By one who served in the campaigns. Re-printed from the ''Madras Daily Times'' 1860 Google Books. Also available as a [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100023386178.0x000001 British Library Digital file].*[http://www.google.com/books?id=-TsQAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_slider_thumb#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Recollections of the Campaign in Malwa and Central India ''] by Ast Asst Surgeon John Henry Sylvester 1860(Google Books)<br />*[http://books.google.com/books?id=6GwBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR4 ''Central India during the Rebellion of 1857 and 1858''] by Thomas Lowe, Medical Officer to the Corps of Madras Sappers and Miners 1860 (Google Books)<br>*[http://www.archive.org/stream/revoltincentral00burtgoog#page/n4/mode/2up ''The Revolt in Central India 1857-1859''] compiled by Army Headquarters, India 1908 (archive.org)<br>*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081656500?urlappend=%3Bseq=342 "The Storming of Jhansi: A Passage in the History of the Royal County Downs" [Royal Downshires, or 86th Regiment of Foot<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by J. D. B. page 344 ''The United Service Magazine 1878, Part 1'' HathiTrust Digital Library.*[https://archive.org/details/generalsirrichar00thor ''General Sir Richard Meade and the Feudatory States of Central and Southern India; a record of forty-three year's service as Soldier, Political Officer and Administrator''] by Thomas Henry Thornton 1898 Archive.org. Born 1821, Sir Richard served in the Bengal Army from 1838 for nearly twenty years. At the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny he was Brigade-Major of the Gwalior Contingent which mutinied. He later raised Meade’s Horse. Subsequently in 1859 he was appointed Political Agent at Gwalior, finally retiring in March 1881.*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6wbmMHtf-FwC&pg=PA310 "The Mutiny"] page 310 ''Memorials of Service in India‬: ‪from the correspondence of the late Major Samuel Charters Macpherson,‬ Political Agent at Gwalior during the Mutiny'' 1865 Google Books*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=7HEBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''The Mutinies in Rajpootana, being personal narrative of the Mutiny at Nusseerabad, with subsequent residence at Jodhpore, and journey across the desert into Sind, together with an account of the outbreak at Neemuch, and mutiny of the Jodhpore Legion at Erinpoora, and attack on Mount Aboo''] by Iltudus Thomas Prichard. late of the Bengal Army 1860 Google Books. He had served with the [[15th Bengal Native Infantry]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190508034757/https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/the-mutinies-in-rajpootana-33157.html peterharrington.co.uk] </ref>*"An Old Soldier on the Indian Mutiny". From the diary of Private William Taylor, K Company, [[71st Regiment of Foot|71st HLI]], who served in the Central Indian Campaign in the Bullock Battery, and also the Camel Corps. :[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JOuzfgh0BpgC&pg=PA889 Page 889] July 1903; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JOuzfgh0BpgC&pg=PA921 page 921] October 1903; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JOuzfgh0BpgC&pg=PA30 page 30] January 1904; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JOuzfgh0BpgC&pg=PA130 page 130] October 1904. ''Highland Light Infantry Chronicle''. Google Books.

*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1909/fullscreen.html?object=44 Central India map] Imperial Gazetteer of India Vol 26 Atlas 1909