Kunwar Singh was the Zamindar of which State ?

In 'zamindar of which State' questions on the Revolt of 1857, 'State' is used loosely for a leader's own base of power -- a zamindari estate, a princely court, or a garrison town -- rather than a formal administrative state. A common exam pattern is matching each leader of 1857 to the correct base from which they led the uprising.

Kunwar Singh was the aged zamindar of Jagdishpur, a small estate near Arrah in Bihar's Shahabad region (present-day Bhojpur district). When the revolt broke out in 1857, he took command of the uprising in Bihar and fought British forces across the region; he was wounded while crossing the Ganga back to Jagdishpur, went on to defeat a British force there, and died of his wound at Jagdishpur in April 1858.

Each other option names a different leader's base, not Kunwar Singh's:

• Avadh (capital Lucknow) was the centre of the revolt led by Begum Hazrat Mahal after the British annexation of the kingdom.

• Bithoor, near Kanpur, was the residence of Nana Sahib (Dhondu Pant), adopted heir of the last Peshwa, who led the uprising in that region.

• Barrackpore was the cantonment where sepoy Mangal Pandey's act of defiance took place in March 1857, an early flashpoint that foreshadowed the wider uprising that broke out at Meerut that May -- a military station, not a zamindari.

Kunwar Singh's own zamindari, and hence the answer, was Jagdishpur.