Operation Anvil (Mau Mau Uprising) authorities. Within 48 hours the British had detained 206 known insurgents. In the following weeks over 50,000 Africans were detained and questioned. Nevetheless, numerous leading figures among the rebels managed to escape from Nairobi into the countryside. The operation ended on 26 May. Operation Anvil marked a turning-point in the British campaign against the Mau Mau. The action left the insurgents mostly isolated in the forested mountains of Nyandarwa and Kirinyaga without access to supplies and the assistance of passive supporters. It proved to be the most sophisticated undertaking of the Kenyan Emergency. In the following weeks Mau Mau activity
Mau district ± Muslim 21% ± Other 7% ± In sports Mau has a tremendous history: Jharkande Rai and Kalpnath Rai were well-known faces of politics in Mau. Mau sadar is the Legislative seat of politician Mukhtar Ansari and His son Abbas Ansari Politicians Sunil Singh Chauhan, Harinarayan Rajbhar are also from Mau. Chairman of Mau Tayyab Palki and chairman of Kopaganj Helal Ahmed Ansari are also from Mau District. In literature, Mau has produced many great writers and poets, such as: Mau district Mau district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and Mau town is the